ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the structure of the police service and police authorities. It also examines several sources in an attempt to determine how the police define crime prevention. The sources examined include works from Her Majesty’s Chief Inspectorate of Constabulary, the Audit Commission, the Representative Associations for the police and the work of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) sub-committee on crime prevention, the Operational Policing Review, and the manual for the police probationer training foundation course. The chapter analyses the results of how the police in Boroughville defined crime prevention with the aim of indicating whether national and local definitions coincide. It demonstrates that there is a crime prevention relationship between the police and probation. The ACPO sub-committee on crime prevention actually states that one of their objectives is to “develop the situational approach”.
