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WHAT IS

COMMUNITY

SAFETY?

Community Safety promotes stronger, safer and sustainable
communities allowing them to lead a safe and happy life
without the fear of crime. Community Safety is multifaceted
concept which incorporates many areas of work including:

• Raise public safety awareness • Reduce opportunity for crime
• Help communities feel safe • Help communities stay safe
• Reduce fear of crime • Help and support victims
• Change offender behaviour

Community safety is a term used in relation to “Crime
Prevention” and “Crime Reduction”, but it often goes
further into introducing physical and social changes in line
with local priorities, in order to prevent crime and disorder
from taking place.
The Department of Justice defines community safety as an approach
to preventing, reducing and responding to crime which:
• Provides local solutions to local problems
• Focuses on wider social issues, including anti-social behaviour,
fear of crime, quality of life issues, and social and economic factors
• Is delivered through a partnership approach, involving the statutory,
voluntary and private sectors, as well as community groups and
individual citizens; and
• Offers holistic and problem-oriented solutions.

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