Community Initiatives Co-ordinators
Community Initiatives Co-ordinators work within the Community Safety Bureau to promote re-active and pro-active crime and disorder prevention, depending on seasonal trends and other crimes that have been committed.
Re-active crime prevention involves conducting regular crime pattern analyses to establish hotspots and do what is necessary in those areas to reduce numbers. This may mean leafleting house to house and putting up temporary advice signs or it might mean teaming up with police volunteers and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) to deliver advice to motorists about vehicle crime.
Pro-active crime prevention includes working with schools and other youth and community groups to carry out workshops about stranger danger, anti-social behaviour and distraction burglary.
They also work closely with voluntary organisations and local Neighbourhood Watch schemes to raise the awareness of crime and to provide a service to previous victims and the vulnerable.
Community Initiatives Co-ordinators attend local crime and disorder partnership meetings, where they discuss issues relating to drugs and alcohol, domestic violence and general crime in the area they cover. They also become involved with local parish council meetings to discuss any crime and disorder problems they may have.
Community Initiatives Co-ordinators in rural areas may be required to run the police rural beat bus. This is a mobile police office, used to provide a high profile police presence in villages and rural areas.
As part of their role, many Community Initiatives Co-ordinators will become involved with local fund raising events where money is raised for youth shelters, schemes to reduce speeding in towns and villages, and for other ways of implementing crime and disorder policies.