STAGE

ACTION

WHO

WHEN BY?

Forming the audit team

Decide who is going to prepare community safety profile

Decide who is going to organise community consultation

Decide who is going to conduct policy and practice review

Decide who will prepare the audit report, summarising the findings from the various stages of the audit and identifying objectives

Decide who will write the community safety strategy

Assign audit team and/or external consultants

Community Safety Profile

Community safety profile

Identify other partnerships that have already prepared a community safety profile. Visit partnership(s), obtain copies of documents in order to identify good practice

Contact agencies (Box 3.4) to check availability of data, availability of reports, time needed to retrieve data, format data and geographic/time coverage of data

If appropriate, discuss data requirements with GIS unit

Select basic geographic and time units (eg wards and calendar year, police beats and financial years, etc)

Request data and previously prepared reports from various agencies

Community safety Profile

Check data on arrival for accuracy

Geocode data using GIS and prepare maps (if appropriate)

Convert relevant data into rates

Examine trends in crime, disorder and accidents over 3 to 5 year period

Identify those types of crime, disorder and accidents that have relatively high levels and/or upward trends

Identify and profile those areas with relatively high levels of crime, disorder and accidents

Examine offender data to highlight what sort of offenders (by age gender, ethnicity, area of residence) are responsible for what sort of crimes

Examine risk factor data

Examine victim data to highlight what sort of victims(by age gender, ethnicity, area of residence) are suffering what sort of crimes or accidents (including crimes against businesses)

Investigate costs of crime, disorder and accidents in local area

Prepare section on social, economic and environmental factors associated with community safety problems taking into account areas, section of the community, etc identified from crime, disorder and accident data

Submit draft report to steering group. Re-draft, carry out further analysis as requested

Review community safety profile process. Note areas where data was incomplete, inaccurate, unavailable.

Inform partnership so measures can be put into place to improve data collection before next audit

Critically look at existing methods of consultation

Visit partnership, obtain copy of document in order to identify good practice

Identify hard-to-reach and heavily victimised groups (using community safety profile if available)

Decide on methods of consultation and identify necessary budgets

Make sure that time periods, geographic areas used in surveys match those used in community safety profile(if possible)

Conduct consultation exercises and surveys

Compile report. Check for gaps in consultation

Submit draft report to partnership. Re-draft, carry out further consultation as requested

Review consultation process. Give feedback to those members of the community that took part in the consultation

Identify agencies/departments/key individuals to be interviewed

Circulate audit report to check for gaps and to confirm priorities