Community & Youth Involvement gives information on how the public can engage with the community. This can be from community associations to getting heavily involved with activities accross the town.
Anti-social behaviour has a wide legal definition – to paraphrase the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, it is behaviour which causes or is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people who are not in the same household as the perpetrato
Drug misuse gives rise to between £10 billion and £18 billion a year in social and economic costs. An estimated 25% of drug misusers also misuse alcohol.
Domestic Violence is defined as violence, which includes any form of physical, sexual, emotional or financial abuse between people who are, or have been in close relationship. It can take the forms such as physical assault, sexual abuse and intimidation.
Hate crime is when someone attacks another person verbally, via mail or email, or perhaps physically, and the crime is driven by the attacker's prejudice against a particular group of people.
There are many types of anti-social behaviour that affect our environment and also can have an affect on our health, In this section, there is an explanation as to what the enviro-crimes are.
The reduction of crime is clearly a key priority for the Safer Harlow Partnership. We are required by legislation to work together to meet this objective, and have agreed an 18.5% reduction target with the Home Office for the period 2005-08
