Elements and Performance Criteria
- Act as a resource to promote accessibility and capacity to support crime prevention
- Own awareness of actual and potential community-initiated crime prevention action is actively maintained.
- Requests for support are evaluated against the organisation's strategic intentions, priorities and available resources.
- Specialist advice on community safety and crime prevention issues and proposals is provided in accordance with requests and in line with organisational policies.
- Assistance i s provided, when requested and as possible, to foster and promote community-initiated crime prevention action and service delivery performance.
- Proposals for crime prevention initiatives are reviewed in light of contemporary crime prevention principles and practices, including best practice benchmarks.
- Provide information and education to build awareness, capability and support
- Issues are responded to as they arise and according to policies and protocols.
- Information and education programs are developed, promoted and provided to meet identified needs.
- Information and training are provided for individuals, communities and organisations that address critical issues, enabling participation in discussion and decision making.
- Information is tailored and provided to promote sectoral interests to identified target groups and to build the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to participate in public debates and decision making.
- Represent the organisation or community to foster support
- The representative role is established in line with the organisation or community's strategic direction and in consultation with key stakeholders and contacts.
- Opportunities are sought to represent the crime prevention interests of the organisation or community.
- Achievements are shared in a range of forums to promote ownership and understanding of mutual benefits.
- Participation in decision-making forums and working parties actively promotes the aims, philosophy and achievements of the organisation or community in relation to crime prevention.
- Facilitate the establishment and maintenance of supportive networks
- Opportunities to establish new networks are actively sought and acted upon.
- Assessment is made of the means for networks to contribute to crime prevention initiatives.
- Networks are utilised to communicate and promote the crime prevention needs of community groups and individuals and to obtain information relevant to practitioners' crime prevention function.
- Networks are utilised to advocate for and facilitate the implementation of initiatives to address specific crime and public safety needs.
- The costs and benefits of continuing a network are regularly evaluated against the organisation or community's policies and procedures.
- Utilise strategic partnerships to build capacity
- Potential partnerships are identified and evaluated to determine mutual benefit and value to the crime prevention function.
- Inter-organisational and inter-governmental agreements are negotiated where appropriate.
- Partnerships are monitored and sustained over time.
- Partnerships are utilised to facilitate action across sectors, organisations and communities.