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Aim
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Reduce thefts of and from vehicles |
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Objectives
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- Reduce thefts of and from vehicles in town centre car parks
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| Measures
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Seek Secured Car Park status for 3 car parks with highest theft
rates.
- Identify & implement design improvements in other car
parks
- 1 targeted policing operation a quarter in car park hotspots
- Increase human presence in car parks during high risk
periods.
- Publicise
measures/successes.
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| Inputs
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Local authority - £ to improve security in LA owned car parks.
- Police: [ ] hours officer time
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| Outputs
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3 car parks accredited under Secured Car Parks scheme
- Recommendations for other car parks agreed & implemented.
- 1 targeted policing operation mounted each quarter.
- Human presence in 6 car parks for average of 40 hours per week.
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| Outcomes |
30% reduction in thefts of vehicles in town
centre car parks between 2000/01 and 2002/03
40% reduction in thefts from vehicles in town centre car parks between
2000/01 and 2002/03
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| Key personnel
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- LA Car parks manager) to have lead responsibility / liaise with
private car park operators.
- (Crime Prevention Officers) to carry out security surveys.
- LA Parking services to prepare business case for improvements
recommended/ look at options for increasing human presence..
- LA Corporate services to prepare publicity strategy
- Sector inspector to co-ordinate police activities.
- Local college to carry out evaluation.
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| Milestones
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Security surveys of car parks seeking SCP status completed by end
Sept. 2000 ; recommendations implemented end Mar 2001
- SCP applications end May 2001; SCP status secured by end Oct. 2001
- Other security surveys completed/recommendations implemented
progressively from April 2001.
- Media strategy agreed by Oct. 2000
- Options for increasing human presence identified by Sept 2000;
presence achieved by Jan. 2001
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| Evaluation
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Recorded crime data on theft of and from vehicles (by month) in town
centre for previous 12 months, then for each month of initiative,
identifying crimes in each town centre car park.
- Data on car park usage / revenues (by month) for same period, then
for each month of initiative.
- Data on costs of design improvements/human presence.
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