Step-by-step explanation:
Community safety is about helping communities to be and feel safe. It is important that you feel safe where you live, work or spend your leisure time. There are ways that you can get involved to help improve the safety of your own community.
Policing and Community Safety Partnerships (PCSPs) are statutory bodies, set up to help make communities safer. They also make sure that the voices of local people are heard on policing and community safety issues.
They:
- aim to support communities develop solutions that help tackle crime, fear of crime and anti-social behaviour
- monitor police performance
- help gain the co-operation of the public with the police in preventing crime and enhancing local community safety
- Each PCSP has a policing committee to deal with police monitoring and engagement with local communities.
PCSPs may also set up delivery groups to address particular community safety issues that arise in their areas.
There are 11 PCSPs across Northern Ireland, one working in each council district.