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Safety and security

Safety and security. Safety Reduction of risk to a tolerable level Degree of freedom from unacceptable risk Security An individual or state’s feeling of safety or well-being, protected from attack or violent conflict The control of threat, integrated with an appropriate response capability.

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Safety and security

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  1. Safety and security • Safety • Reduction of risk to a tolerable level • Degree of freedom from unacceptable risk • Security • An individual or state’s feeling of safety or well-being, protected from attack or violent conflict • The control of threat, integrated with an appropriate response capability

  2. Community safety • An environment (enabled and supported by community policing) in which all members of a community, particularly the vulnerable, live in a healthy and safe environment, without fear of crime, intimidation, disorder or anti-social behaviour • Community members must have fair access to public services, facilities and utilities

  3. Community safety • Any issue that has negative effects on the safety of the community, or its members, can be considered a community safety issue • Should include all ‘quality of life’ issues, such as crime, drugs, road safety, community conflict, weapons proliferation and land-mine contamination

  4. Why work on community safety issues? • Communities are unsafe and security needs to be provided or improved • Insecurity at the local level makes people’s quality of life poor, inhibits business activities and economic development, and can lead to violent conflict • The provision of security/safety by the authorities (often the police) may be of low quality and may not always reflect community priorities

  5. Why work on community safety issues? • Very often, communities are excluded from planning and decision-making when it is them that security is supposed to be for • Security agencies may be poorly resourced, poorly trained and can be unresponsive to local people’s needs

  6. Why work on community safety issues? • Just like the state as a whole, security provision has tended to be centralised, making it ‘remote’ from local residents • Safety/security problems are often deep-rooted and connected to exclusion, poverty and unemployment as well as crime, ethnic division and past conflicts • Other government services – such as health and education – do not tend to take public safety into account

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