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Safe City Program

Safe City

Safe City takes a multi-faceted approach in addressing the safety and security issues that affect all people who live, work and visit the CBD and the Local Government Area (LGA).

Safe City works with a range of stakeholders including the Police, residents and community organisations in taking a coordinated approach with a focus on crime prevention to make the community a safer place.

Safe City recognises that crime is a complex issue with no simple solutions. Some of our safety and security initiatives include the development of licensing accords between Police and licensed venues to address under-age drinking and anti-social behaviour in and around licensed venues.

Safe City responses to address illicit drug use include the development of a comprehensive Syringe Management Strategy. We have also implemented the use of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) to increase safety on the city’s streets, and developed community safety plans and education campaigns for specific suburbs aimed at reinforcing the message of looking out for your own and each other’s safety and security.

Glebe Community Safety Plan 2009-2012

The City of Sydney recognises that crime in Glebe is a genuine community concern and seeks to work with a range of groups and individuals in forming genuine partnerships and developing compassionate and innovative solutions to the community safety needs of its communities. The City recognises that there is no "one size fits all" solution to the complex causes of crime and anti-social behaviour. Accordingly the City focuses its resources into preventing crime from occurring in the first place.

The Glebe Community Safety Plan 2009-2012, the first of its kind for the area, is a three year strategy which recognises the considerable strengths of the community and its ability to work together in developing local solutions to its own unique crime and safety problems.

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Redfern - Waterloo Community Safety Plan

The Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Plan was endorsed by Council in March 2004 and aims to tackle the underlying causes of crime through community strengthening activities and the prevention of community harm. The plan was put together by the Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Taskforce, a forum which includes a broad cross section of Government and Non-Government organisations as well as residents and local businesses. This is in recognition that the key to creating safer communities is to work together on a range of identified issues in making our communities safer places to live, work and visit.

Success of Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Plan

Although the respective agencies are aware that much of the challenge lies ahead the Redfern-Waterloo Community Safety Plan has achived some encouraging results in its three years of implementation, 2004-2006, with statistics from Redfern Police Local Area Command indicating decreases in the following offences:

  • Break and Enter - down 26%
  • Stealing - down 24%
  • Robbery - down 14%
  • Stolen Vehicle - down 14% and
  • Assault - down 7%.

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Success of Crime Prevention Campaigns

Recent data released by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research suggests that Safe City campaigns in conjunction with Police initiatives have been effective in reducing theft in the City of Sydney.

In the City of Sydney Local Government Area:

  • Steal from person offences have declined by 24.3%, compared with 21.4% in NSW as a whole
  • Steal from motor vehicle offences have declined by 23.7%, substantially more than the state average of 12.2%.

To view more crime statistics and reports visit the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research website www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au.

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For More Information

Australian Institute of Criminology

Website: www.aic.gov.au

Attorney General's Department

Website: www.ag.gov.au

NSW Premiers Department

Website: www.premiers.nsw.gov.au

NSW Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy

Website: www.druginfo.nsw.gov.au

Department of Gaming and Racing

Website: www.dgr.nsw.gov.au

NSW Police

Website: www.police.nsw.gov.au

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Last Updated: Thursday 25 March, 2010

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