Ms SACILOTTO - 2006-05-03
There are a number of community groups working with government to prevent crime. One such group is a Darwin City Action Group which operates within my electorate of Port Darwin. We have seen some great inroads, particularly in reducing property crime, with break-ins down by more than 40% under this government. Can the minister update the House on the level of government support for community-led crime prevention?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for what is another very important question. I take the opportunity at the outset to pay tribute to the work of the Office of Crime Prevention - led by Cheryl McCoy and Stephen Jackson - on the fantastic work that that office has done since we came to government and established that arrangement.
The OCP has been instrumental in getting a whole network of community-based crime prevention councils going: Darwin Regional Crime Prevention Council: Palmerston Regional Safety Communities Committee: Katherine Region Harmony Group: Barkly Regional Safer Communities Committee: East Arnhem Harmony Mawaya Mala: Anindilyakwa Network Regional Crime Prevention Council at Alyangula: Western Aranda Relekha Committee: Kurduju Regional Crime Prevention Council in the Warlpiri lands: NPY Women’s Council in the south: and the Community Safety Steering Group in Alice Springs.
That is hundreds of people who are now in active partnership with the government developing local proposals and community safety plans to give us advice and guidance on what is likely to work neighbourhood by neighbourhood, region by region. That is of enormous value to us, as a government, when we are trying to work out the best initiatives to take for juvenile diversion, antisocial behaviour, crime prevention through environmental design, and so on.
The budget that we have applied to that process is $0.75m. This year, there is $400 000 for crime prevention grants, which are allocated on a submission-based process to community groups such as the group the member for Port Darwin referred to. Approximately $350 000 additional money will go to the regional and indigenous crime prevention councils, which I have just enumerated, to fund initiatives under their community safety plans.
When you put that alongside $110 000 going into Neighbourhood Watch via the department of Police, we have a very extensive community-based crime prevention network throughout the Territory, which is linking us to the grassroots ideas about how to lower crime and antisocial behaviour levels in our community - $860 000 worth of investment in our partnership with the community.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for what is another very important question. I take the opportunity at the outset to pay tribute to the work of the Office of Crime Prevention - led by Cheryl McCoy and Stephen Jackson - on the fantastic work that that office has done since we came to government and established that arrangement.
The OCP has been instrumental in getting a whole network of community-based crime prevention councils going: Darwin Regional Crime Prevention Council: Palmerston Regional Safety Communities Committee: Katherine Region Harmony Group: Barkly Regional Safer Communities Committee: East Arnhem Harmony Mawaya Mala: Anindilyakwa Network Regional Crime Prevention Council at Alyangula: Western Aranda Relekha Committee: Kurduju Regional Crime Prevention Council in the Warlpiri lands: NPY Women’s Council in the south: and the Community Safety Steering Group in Alice Springs.
That is hundreds of people who are now in active partnership with the government developing local proposals and community safety plans to give us advice and guidance on what is likely to work neighbourhood by neighbourhood, region by region. That is of enormous value to us, as a government, when we are trying to work out the best initiatives to take for juvenile diversion, antisocial behaviour, crime prevention through environmental design, and so on.
The budget that we have applied to that process is $0.75m. This year, there is $400 000 for crime prevention grants, which are allocated on a submission-based process to community groups such as the group the member for Port Darwin referred to. Approximately $350 000 additional money will go to the regional and indigenous crime prevention councils, which I have just enumerated, to fund initiatives under their community safety plans.
When you put that alongside $110 000 going into Neighbourhood Watch via the department of Police, we have a very extensive community-based crime prevention network throughout the Territory, which is linking us to the grassroots ideas about how to lower crime and antisocial behaviour levels in our community - $860 000 worth of investment in our partnership with the community.
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