Tackling Burglary
News Archive
A list of the most recent developments:
- Domestic Burglary evidence base - This is the first evidence base from the Improving Performance through Applied Knowledge (IPAK) pilot. IPAK seeks to share knowledge with practitioners across England and Wales to help people learn how to take known effective practice demonstrated by other groups and apply it to their local context in order to reduce crime and the fear of crime in their area.
'Let's Keep Crime Down' - A major Home Office public awareness campaign to cut burglary, robbery and vehicle crime was launched on 1st November 2005 by the Home Office. The campaign included television and radio adverts, as well as posters at bus shelters which were designed to show people the simple steps they could take to reduce the risk of becoming victims of crime. The campaign launched as the clocks went back – a time of year when the crimes of burglary, robbery and vehicle crime traditionally rise, as thieves take advantage of the darkness.
Safer Homes Initiative - Cheshire Police launched this initiative in April 2004 to improve every process involved in investigating and reducing domestic burglary. This campaign was the brainchild of ACC Graeme Gerrard, Chairman of the ACPO Burglary Reduction Working Group and a member of the Home Office Distraction Burglary Task Force. Sir Bobby Charlton who had been a burglary victim, endorsed the campaign. To kick-start the campaign, members of the public were asked to "make their mark" in the fight to safeguard their homes against burglars by marking their property.
University of Chester was commissioned by Cheshire Police to carry out an evaluation of the Safer Home Initiative. An evaluation report, published in October 2005, is available on Centrex Genesis website.
Planning Out Crime - Good Practice Guide
The Home Office and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister have jointly produced guidelines on planning out crime. The document, entitled "Safer Places - The Planning System and Crime Prevention", sets out how good planning can lead to safer and therefore more sustainable communities.Targeting the markets for stolen goods – two targeted policing initiative projects (March 2004). This report provides good practice advice to practitioners who may want to undertake work on market reduction and is extremely valuable in extending the market reduction knowledge base. It is based on an evaluation of two Market Reduction projects.
Domestic Burglary National Good Practice & Tactical Options Guide
Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), in conjunction with the Home Office has produced a Domestic Burglary Good Practice and Tactical Options Guide. This report, published in October 2004, was compiled by the ACPO Burglary Reduction Working Group and the Home Office Police Standards Unit. It is aimed at those with a responsibility for tackling domestic burglary and is intended to assist by providing options for consideration.
Last update: Monday, July 21, 2008