Increasing Community Engagement

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  • To establish a safe public environment the co-operation of many partners is crucial. However policing priorities need to be decided by communities not solely by statistical analysis.

  • Community engagement is not a one way process. Active citizenship requires specialist work to brief, train and motivate communities. Nobody currently has this task. Whilst police may be in a position to establish order, the need to form structures and problem solving responses requires an extension of current resource and capability.

  • To achieve partnership and community engagement clear unequivocal guidance is needed removing any perceived barriers to data sharing so that proper problem solving can begin.

  • We must take a longer-term view of the offending cycle. Earlier intervention beginning in the pre-school phase and continuing through every stage, including catching and convicting as well as organised re-settlement after custodial sentence.

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