The Crime Prevention Unit (CPU)
Established in 1993 the CPU works with (and partly funds) communities to promote the development and putting in place of ideas for crime prevention. At the heart of the CPU's work is the concept of local solutions to local problems. The CPU does its work through a network of 65 Safer Community Councils (SCCs) nation-wide.
The CPU contributes funding for the administration of the SCCs as well as for funding of specific SCC programmes, and projects with SCC links. Last year the CPU transferred to the Ministry of Justice.
SCCs
The 65 SCCs, two of them specifically working with Pacific Island groups and six of them sponsored by iwi or Maori organisations, are run by committees of community representatives. Aside from CPU funding, the councils also get funds from their sponsoring body, usually the local territorial authority or iwi authority, and from government and/or community agencies with an interest in, or simply a desire to support, crime prevention projects. These projects include:
- community-managed restorative justice programmes;
- youth-focused crime prevention activities;
- improving safety in specific neighbourhoods or suburbs where there is a high crime rate;
- promoting awareness of, and practical actions to prevent, family violence; and
- education aimed at reducing alcohol and drug abuse and associated anti-social behaviour and health risks.
The overriding aim of any of the SCC projects is to reduce crime and make the community and everyone in it safer.
| For contact details about SCCs in your area phone your local Citizens Advice Bureau or council offices |
Contact for Enquiries
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington
Tel: 0800 00 83 33
Fax: +64 4 894 0720
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