Community Safety

The term ‘community safety’ is now widely used by academics, police officers, politicians, local authority workers and others involved in localised action against crime.

It is often invoked as a generic, all-encompassing phrase for ‘crime prevention’ or ‘crime reduction’, and appears to mean many things to many different people.

In Basingstoke and Deane Borough we understand community safety as developing sustainable communities where crime and the fear of crime are reduced; where early action is taken on an inter-agency basis to prevent and resolve behaviour or situations which put individuals and communities at risk.