A safe and cohesive community
Vision
Our aim is to have a safer Tower Hamlets: a place where everyone
feels safe, gets on better together and difference is not seen as
threat but a core strength of the borough.
Challenges and opportunities
Tower Hamlets is becoming safer, with significant reductions in
the levels of overall crime. Although crime is falling, overall
crime levels continue to be one of the highest in London. Crime
remains the biggest concern for local people, although concerns
have fallen for a number of years. We recognise that reducing crime
alone is not enough; residents need to feel safer in their
neighbourhoods and when moving around the borough. Visible crime
has a strong impact on people’s sense of feeling safe.
To make Tower Hamlets a safe and cohesive community, the
Partnership will focus on achieving the following objectives:
- Objective 1: Focusing on crime and anti-social behaviour
- Objective 2: Reducing re-offending
- Objective 3: Reducing the fear of crime
- Objective 4: Fostering greater community cohesion
- Objective 5: Tackling violent extremism
In order to achieve our commitments to One Tower
Hamlets we will:
- Prevent and reduce violence against women and girls
- Target all forms of hate crime and anti-social behaviour
- Develop and deliver the Partnership’s approach to community
cohesion
Strategies that will contribute to this
theme:
- Crime Reduction Strategy and Plan
- Drugs Harm Reduction Strategy
- Alcohol Strategy
- Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy
- Reducing Re-Offending Strategy
- PREVENT Plan