This strategy has emerged from and replaces the previous strategy – Putting prevention first, published in 2017. The prevention and reduction of crime is a significant deliverable of our Strategy Statement, which outlines our vision for a victim-centred police service, focused on keeping people safe, protecting the most vulnerable and providing a consistently high standard of service. This strategy is also informed by our organisational objectives of protecting people from crime through reducing crime and the fear of crime, leveraging our improving data to enhance information-enabled policing, using multi-agency partnership approaches in tacking crime, and providing crime prevention advice through education and awareness.

The strategy outlines goals and actions centred on our five crime prevention strategic objectives:

• Partnerships
• Creating awareness & communication
• Protecting communities
• Consistent and professional crime prevention service, and
• Review and evaluation