Community engagement
Policing practice: existing practice
UK examples? Add Wooler and Merseyside. Others?
CDRPs/DATs
CDRP/DATs have a crucial coordinating role to play in overseeing the delivery, in partnership with other agencies, of neighbourhood level priorities which have been agreed with local communities.
Many CDRP/DATs have already embraced community engagement as a way of ensuring that services are planned and targeted appropriately based on local knowledge and experience, and are progressing community engagement very effectively beyond the usual consultation methods.
The Home Office aims to identify those CDRP/DATs/Police Forces which have been most effective in engaging communities in crime reduction and community safety. This will allow the promotion of their practices through the CDRP/DATs' knowledge management system.
Self-learning in community engagement
The Home Office is also developing (subject to Ministerial approval) a self-learning package, primarily for CDRP/DATs but useful to anyone working in the area of crime reduction.
The book underlines the fact that there is no "one-size fits all" approach to community engagement, and so describes a general approach that can be tailored to meet specific needs. We hope that this will help practitioners achieve even more effective results.
Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch is a remarkable success story in terms of engaging communities to help reduce crime, and now has the opportunity of building on its success.
On the basis of a number of recommendations arising from a recent study on what could be done to further support, develop and strengthen Neighbourhood Watch, work has begun on the establishment of a national forum to ensure more effective communication, partnership working, exchange of good practice and training resources.
Latest news on Neighbourhood Watch development can be found on the new Neighbourhood Watch website www.neighbourhoodwatch.uk.com
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