National Publications

Policing/Neighbourhood Policing

Code of Good Practice for Public Access to Local Crime Information October 2008 for Police Forces and Authorities in England and Wales
This Code of Good Practice sets out the core requirements and data holding sets and has been developed in consultation with a range of stakeholders including the Association of Police Authorities (APA), Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) and a virtual network of practitioners. It contains a set of minimum standards which all forces will be expected to meet.

Crime and Disorder Act 1998
An Act to make provision for preventing crime and disorder; to create certain racially-aggravated offences; to abolish the rebuttable presumption that a child is doli incapax and to make provision as to the effect of a child’s failure to give evidence at his trial; to abolish the death penalty for treason and piracy; to make changes to the criminal justice system; to make further provision for dealing with offenders; to make further provision with respect to remands and committals for trial and the release and recall of prisoners; to amend Chapter I of Part II of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 and to repeal Chapter I of Part III of the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997; to make amendments designed to facilitate, or otherwise desirable in connection with, the consolidation of certain enactments; and for connected purposes.

Crime in England and Wales 2008/09
Presents the financial year crime statistics from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime.  Published July 09.

Volume 1 – Findings from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime

Volume 2 – Explanatory notes and classifications

Cutting Crime: A New Partnership 2008-11
In July the Government published this report, which described a refreshed approach to tackling crime and increasing community safety. This set the overarching strategic framework for crime and community safety from 2008/09 to 2010/11. This was followed in October by a new set of Public Service Agreements (PSAs).

Cutting Crime - a New Partnership' - the Home Office Crime Strategy
The Home Office crime strategy sets out the main lessons learned over the past ten years and looks forward to how we can build on these lessons to address new crime challenges.

Delivering the Policing Pledge - Early Findings
The policing pledge aims to ensure that the public has responsive policing, placing the citizen at the heart of police services.  This report is the outcome of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's early testing of policing pledge implementation.

Extending our Reach: A Comprehensive Approach to Tackling Serious Organised Crime
This strategy sets out the reforms we will make to ensure that the government, law enforcement agencies, businesses and the public have the necessary tools to reduce the harm caused by organised crime. (July 09)

Findings from the Second Year of the National Neighbourhood Policing Programme Evaluation

Home Secretary's Speech on Crime and Communities
This is a transcript of the speech by Home Secretary Alan Johnson at the Battersea Arts Centre on 2nd July 2009.  He talks about keeping people safe from crime and anti-social behaviour.

Measuring Neighbourhood Watch - Views of Effectiveness May 2009
This review was undertaken at the request of Chief Constable Frank Whiteley, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) lead for Neighbourhood and Home Watch and other Watch Schemes in England and Wales, following lengthy debate at the National Strategy Group for Watch Issues (NSGWI) around the question of "Is Neighbourhood Watch effective in reducing crime?"

Neighbourhood Policing Partnership Guide
This guide aims to introduce community safety partners, from executive level to front-line staff, to the ‘why, what and how’ of Neighbourhood Policing. It also stresses the advantages of partnership working to deliver more effective services while also achieving better value for money from existing resources.

New Security and Counter-Terrorism Science and Innovation Strategy
The strategy sets out how the government intends to work with partners in the private sector and academia, with international colleagues, and within Government, to use science and innovation to strengthen counter-terrorism capabilities.  June 2007.

Prevent - Progress and Prospects
This publication highlights the critical role played by the police in delivering 'Prevent', which is part of the government's counter terrorism strategy.

Protecting the Public: Supporting the Police to Succeed - December 2009
This White Paper will build on the reforms laid out in last year's Green Paper - which put the public at the heart of policing, and moved away from top-down targets towards a focus on public confidence and more serious crimes - combining this with a clear plan for improving the efficiency and productivity of the police over the next five years.

Public Perception of Organised Crime: Results from an Opinion Poll
This report details the results of a survey on public perception of organised crime carried out on behalf of the Home Office.  The survey was conducted in February and March 2009 and examines levels of concern about organised crime among members of the public, how much organised crime impacts on people's daily lives, and how empowered people feel to tackle it.

Pursue, Prevent, Protect, Prepare
This booklet provides a brief introduction to the revised counterterrorism strategy, to some of the people behind it, and to the work that is going on to keep the UK safe from the terrorist threat.

Pursue Prevent Protect Prepare - The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism
Since 2003, we have had a comprehensive strategy in place to counter the threat to this country and to our interests overseas from international terrorism.  The strategy is known as CONTEST.  The aim of the strategy is ‘to reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas from international terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence’.

Safe and Confident Neighbourhoods Strategy
A cross-Government and cross-Agency Safe and Confident Neighbourhoods Strategy: Next Steps in Neighbourhood Policing has been released. The Strategy sets out our plans to sustain and protect frontline and to embed it into the wider force approach to community safety.

The Prevent Strategy: A Guide for Local Partners in England
Stopping people becoming or supporting terrorists and violent extremists.