ABSTRACT
The overall programme is centrally administered by the Crime Prevention Unit (CPU) at the Home Office. However each individual project is locally driven.1 Thus, a co-ordinator, assistant co-ordinator and personal assistant with knowledge of the area are appointed to administer the project under the guidance of a steering group. Each steering group
comprises representatives of the local authority, police, probation, voluntary organisations, ethnic minorities, as well as business and community interests, and representatives of Task Forces and of City Action Teams where these are operating. The term ‘partnership’ is used to describe both the relationship between the agencies implicated in pursuit of local Safer Cities aims and the national-local relationship through which the programme is run.
