Safety Audit Programme

The Safety Audit Programme is for people who want to feel safer in their public space and who are prepared to do something towards achieving it. Safety Audits are about improving the physical environment in ways that will reduce the opportunities for crime. Safety Audits are also about making public places like parks, bus stops and streets safer for everyone.

Introduction

Safety Audits are a crime prevention initiative that aims to reduce opportunities for crime, particularly violent crime, in public places. Safety Audits allow local people to provide accurate and useful information to planners, designers and service providers. Safety Audits provide an opportunity for the community to have a say about what contributes to their feelings of safety in their neighbourhoods, and thereby encourages better use of public space.

Safety Audits aim to:

• identify possible crime sites in public space;
• address crime-related safety concerns by making recommendations to appropriate authorities and owners of space directed at removing or reducing opportunities for crime and
• enable the community to monitor the implementation of recommendations made.