Crime Reduction - Helping to Reduce Crime in Your Area

Good Practice

The aim of this section is to provide examples of emerging good practice in reducing crime against students. The projects or organisations included here cover the main crimes affecting students and were the basis for discussion at the two conferences in July 2003. This section will be updated to include further successful projects and interventions.

With the exception of the Reducing Burglary project which was part of the RBI (Reducing Burglary Initiative), none of the interventions included here have been formally evaluated. However, they offer useful guidance and a source of further information to practitioners when developing their student crime reduction strategies. 

The following pages cover:

• Street Crime
  Leeds Student Crime Reduction Partnership

• Street Crime
  Street Safe - Merseyside Police

• Starting a Student Crime Awareness Campaign
  Hull University Students against Crime (HUSAC)

• Reducing Burglary in Student Accommodation
  Sheffield Studentland, Reducing Burglary Initiative - South  Yorkshire Police

• Drug & Alcohol Assisted Rape
  The Roofie Foundation

• International Students
  Operation Columbus - Cambridgeshire Constabulary
  Student Safe Southampton - Hampshire Constabulary

• Safety Bus Scheme & Safety on Public Transport
  Student Safety Bus - Oxford Brookes University

• Landlord Accreditation
  Voluntary Accreditation Schemes: Dr. Philip Leather - Birmingham University/ Martin Blakey - UNIPOL Student Homes, Leeds

• Further Interventions
  Examples of additional student crime reduction interventions

We want to hear about projects and schemes which have achieved reductions in crime against students and have raised students' awareness of crime for inclusion on this site. Please ensure you have included the following information and send to: tacklingburglary@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

• An outline of the problem you identified (e.g.; burglaries to halls of residence, robbery against students at night, etc)

• How you tackled it - what interventions were used?

• Who you involved - police, student union, security staff, etc?

• Timeframe and targets- e.g.: short, police-led intervention, 3 month publicity drive, etc?

• Outcomes - how was it measured a success?

• What were barriers to success and how they were overcome?

• Contact details

Last update: Last update: Thursday, February 01, 2007