Carrying Out An Alcohol and Crime Audit

Crime & Disorder Partnerships must be able to identify and understand the range and extent of alcohol related problems, specific to their areas, before they can develop a local plan of action and assess the type and level of resources required.

Crime & Disorder Partnerships will, therefore, need to develop a comprehensive local audit, with an involvement of the local community. This will help:

• to prioritise and target activity

• to obtain a baseline of the scale and nature of anti-social behaviour problems to monitor future success and failure

• review and evaluate current work in progress

• identify gaps in local service response & provision

• identify relevant local partners/stakeholders to co-operate with and achieve a more successful outcome with joint resources and;

• create ownership at a local level