Community safety
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 was introduced in January 2023 as part of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. It requires authorities such as the Police, Justice Partners, the Fire and Rescue Service, the Local Authority, and Health to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence in our communities.
From January 2023 to March 2026, the Home Office has provided Cambridgeshire and Peterborough with over £1.5 million of Serious Violence Duty grant funding, of which almost £1.14 million has been allocated for the delivery interventions that prevent and reduce serious violence.
Details of the funding awarded in each financial year can be found below:
Serious Violence Awards 2025-26
Serious Violence Awards 2024-25
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 projects from April 2023 to March 2025, a further £411,289 was awarded to continue the work from April 2025 - March 2026
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.
Domestic Abuse and Stalking Perpetrator Intervention Fund Awards 2025-26
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.
The Home Office further extended this programme and awarded £1m to deliver projects in 2025/26. In November 2025 the Home Office allocated Cambridgeshire an additional £80,500 to deliver targeted work in specific areas in the county.
Details of the funding awarded can be found in the document below.