Community Safety and Engagement
Key focus areas:
- Public order and safety
- Crime prevention and community partnerships
- Civil emergencies and major events
Community safety and engagement is focused on the prevention of crime, engagement with the community and providing policing services that preserve public safety and good order during civil emergencies and special events.
Engaging the community is a critical component in addressing both the causes of crime and preventing crime. Over the past decade, community policing and problem-oriented policing have increasingly focused on identifying the causes of crime and engaging the community in resolving crime related issues.
Community engagement also helps to ensure service delivery is appropriate, focused and effective. Together, these activities contribute to developing safe and secure communities.
Output expenditure
Strategies
- Manage calls for service in a professional, ethical and responsive manner underpinned by a `client service´ philosophy
- Monitor and address perceptions of safety and security within the community through high-visibility presence, interaction, client follow up and reassurance
- Ensure timely responses to incidents of anti-social behaviour and develop programs to reduce such occurrences
- Develop, implement and evaluate focused and innovative policing and crime prevention initiatives, guided by intelligence, analysis and research
- Promote crime prevention initiatives on a whole-of-Government and community basis
- Engage in and foster effective partnerships and networks with the community, government agencies and the private sector to identify and address the causes of crime and anti-social behaviour
- Plan for and allocate sufficient resources to manage and police major and special events, emergencies, disasters and terrorist incidents
Last updated 12/01/2010
