Agreeing Priorities
The next stage involves generating ideas on how to tackle the priorities agreed.
It is possible to intervene at many different points to reduce the chances of a crime
taking place. For example, interventions may involve:
- Increased surveillance and improving design
- Changes in the way parking areas are designed or managed
- Targeted enforcement
- Reducing the market for stolen goods.
- Targeted work with young people at risk of vehicle crime
Partners can produce a surprising number of options based on their knowledge of
the area and their awareness of their own roles and responsibilities within the community.
In plotting the different options it is helpful to distinguish between long and short
term measures and between those which relate to:
- offenders and/or those at risk of offending
- the victims or target
- the physical environment
- the social environment
Generating ideas can be helped by going systematically through the generic list
of interventions set out under ‘Interventions’ in the Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity.
One way of agreeing priorities for the partnership area is to
hold a partnership meeting:
- each agency should come to the meeting having first clarified
their own priorities for action.
- each organisation in turn should outline:
- its strategic priorities in the target area
- what it can contribute to vehicle crime reduction
- any initiatives it may oppose or not wish to take part in.
- The group as a whole can then consider the resulting agenda,
looking at:
- areas of agreement and disagreement
- what is known about effective practice and
- agree priorities for action
- After the meeting individual partners will need to endorse the
agreed priorities.
The priorities agreed should be specific about the
issue to be targeted.
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