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Crime and Disorder Reduction Fund
The Police and Crime Commissioner receives a single pot of funding through the main police grant for policing and community safety purposes. From this fund the Commissioner allocates an amount from which to fund crime and disorder reduction awards.
The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 states that a Police and Crime Commissioner can provide crime and disorder reduction grants:
- to any person
- for securing, or contributing to securing, crime and disorder reduction; and
- can make grants subject to any conditions.
In Cambridgeshire awards are made for statutory partnership arrangements, work that is proven to prevent or reduce crime and disorder (and is the police’s statutory responsibility) and initiatives which enable delivery of the Police and Crime Plan and/or reduce police demand.
You can find more about the prevention work in the Putting Communities First pillar of the Police and Crime Plan.
Details of awards can be found below.
The Serious Violence Duty, launched in January 2023, is a new legal requirement for authorities such as the police, justice partners, the fire service, the local authority and health, to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence in our communities.
The Duty requires organisations to collaborate, share information and develop solutions for how to address serious violence locally. By taking a multi-agency approach, it enables agencies to target interventions according to what is needed in local areas.
Although the Police and Crime Commissioner is not a Duty Holder, he acts as the local convener for the Duty and is responsible for monitoring progress. He also holds partners to account for their compliance and delivery.
As part of the Serious Violence Duty, the Commissioner is committed to engaging with young people to better understand their concerns about the communities they live in.
Through commissioning of a 'Serious Violence Youth Listening Project', more than 1,700 young people (aged 11 to 18) across the county were asked how safe they feel in their local areas and how this can be improved. Insights from this project will inform future work in this area.
The Home Office Safer Streets 5 programme provides funding to tackle neighbourhood crime, violence against women and girls (VAWG) and anti-social behaviour (ASB).
Cambridgeshire were awarded £820,000 to deliver three projects from October 2023 to March 2025.
The first project focuses on reducing and preventing burglary in Peterborough, the second targets ASB in Huntingdon, St Neots and Wisbech. The final project provides preventative measures to tackle VAWG in Cambridge City.
Details of the funding awarded can be found in the document below.
The Home Office Domestic Abuse (DA) Perpetrator Fund provides funding to deliver domestic abuse perpetrator programmes and to provide support to victims.
Cambridgeshire were awarded £786,138 to deliver three projects from April 2023 to March 2025.
There are two elements of the work in the county, the first element focuses on DA Perpetrators at all risk levels and the second is a multi-agency stalking programme.
In March 2023, the government launched its Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) action plan to crack down on anti-social behaviour, aimed at restoring people’s confidence that this behaviour will be quickly and visibly punished. This included funding an increased police and other uniformed presence to clamp down on anti-social behaviour, targeting hotspots.
Following a pilot in July 2023 the government decided to extend the programme in 2024/25 to offer an additional £1m in funding to each police force after the submission of a local proposal. Locally, this included additional funding towards enabling resources and analytical capacity to identify ASB hotspots, and support data collection, as well as visible operational patrols.
Details of the funding awarded can be found in the document below.