New plan to prevent crime and harm in Leicestershire agreed

The plan focuses on preventing crime.

A new blueprint has been unveiled, setting out how key safety partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland will work together to prevent crime and harm.

The Prevention Strategy 2025-29 has been formally agreed by Police and Crime Commissioner Rupert Matthews and Leicestershire Police.

Mr Matthews said: “Prevention is the golden thread running throughout my new Police and Crime Plan. The holistic approach set out in this strategy pulls together all the action necessary for achieving my mission to build safer and more prosperous communities.

“Without a strong emphasis on prevention, policing becomes a cycle of reacting to incidents without ever addressing the underlying issues. This is simply not feasible in a world where policing budgets are seriously overstretched, and services are buckling under demand.

“By effectively stopping crime before it happens, we protect victims from trauma and reduce the risk of issues spiraling and ruining lives. We also ease pressure on our overworked public services while helping to improve the quality of life in our communities.

“I want to commission the most effective services from those best places to provide them. This means tapping into the assets, knowledge and experience that about abounds in our communities – and equipping them with even more - to implement proven interventions that meet the needs of our communities and do exactly what they promise.

“Building safer and more prosperous communities must be a team effort in which we must all play a positive and dynamic role and together we will make a difference.”

The plan looks at policing focused on identifying and tackling the root causes of crime, anti-social behaviour (ASB) and vulnerability.

T/Chief Constable David Sandall said; “Leicestershire Police has invested in prevention for several years including a wide range of ground-breaking projects and programmes, and more recently the establishment of our Prevention Directorate, which has attracted national recognition and praise. Collaboration is key to success in prevention and our joint working with the PCC/OPCC will assist in embedding our progress to date and further advancing our efforts to prevent crime and harm in our communities.”