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Community safety

Community safety is about making places safer for people and addressing local concerns. How safe an area is and feels is affected by a number of factors, not just levels of crime. The levels of noise nuisance people experience, young people hanging around the streets, street cleanliness, graffiti, abandoned vehicles all impact on the feelings of safety in an area.
 
 
20 July 2010
Together with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and the Wales Audit Office, we have found that police in England and Wales could save up to £1 billion without reducing police availability.
 
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If you know which community safety organisation you're interested in, type its name in the search box. eg Greater Manchester Police Authority
 
Against the odds
Re-engaging young people in education, employment or training
7 July 2010
We reveal how councils need a new approach in getting to grips with the needs of their local teens, in order to make scarce resources work harder for those at greatest risk of long-term unemployment.
24 June 2010
The people of Humberside are feeing safer – largely thanks to changes that have arisen due to improvements in the way their Police Authority runs itself, and the way it works with Humberside Police,
24 June 2010
Listening to the views of local people has proved a strength of the Merseyside Police Authority in setting its priorities, and it works alongside Merseyside Police in improving public confidence.
17 June 2010
Effective recruitment of senior staff has made Sussex Police Authority influential in ensuring its police have the leadership, capacity and capability needed to deliver good quality service.
17 June 2010
In 2006 we judged Warwickshire’s police as performing poorly. Our latest report reveals that the standard of policing has improved, and that the county is now a relatively safe place to live.
21 May 2010
The National Audit Office and the Audit Commission have jointly produced this review. It describes the landscape of collaborative procurement across the public sector, and makes recommendations to support a more coordinated approach to procurement.
20 May 2010
The National Fraud Initiative (NFI), the UK-wide antifraud programme, helped trace £215 million in fraud, error and overpayments in 2008/09. Since the initiative's start in 1996, the programme has helped detect £664 million.
 

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