Crime PreventionLEGAL STUDIES 3C

Police & Community Youth Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuRuojFoMm4&list=UUS5sqhTIHvmBoZ8R5w3FISQ

U-Turn program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtVASM8WTw0

Adopt-a-cop/Police in SchoolsThe Adopt-a-Cop program provides primary schools with a local police

officer whom they ‘adopt’. The officer becomes a role model, who conducts presentations on a wide range of topics, including ‘stranger

danger’ and police and the law. These presentations focus on risky behaviours and their consequences to the community, and discussions

about making good decisions.

The Police in Schools Program involves sworn police officers

performing duties and providing a uniformed police presence in

colleges throughout the State, as nominated by the Department of

Education. The Program is aimed at strengthening the relationship

between police and young people resulting in outcomes beneficial to

the whole community.

Crime Stoppers Tasmania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehm3MaysZXw

Crime Stoppers is a not-for-profit organisation whose primary goal is to make our neighbourhoods safer. We have an excellent reputation of

engaging with community to help solve crime.

For 20 years, Crime Stoppers Tasmania has been actively working with Tasmania Police to help fight crime in Tasmania. During that time, we’ve taken over 41,500 information reports; assisted with the arrest of more

than 3,500 persons and the recording of over 16,000 offences; and contributed to the seizure of over $7.2 million worth of drugs.

Neighbourhood Watch

Neighbourhood Watch is a community based crime prevention program which aims to improve the quality of life within a

neighbourhood by minimising preventable crime and promoting closer community ties.

The program relies on the community and the Police working together in a partnership to achieve these aims.

Safe at Home Safe at Home is a whole-of-government strategy for responding to family violence in Tasmania. Safe at Home provides for an integrated response and intervention system designed to bring about a reduction in the incidence of family violence in the medium to long term.

The initiative is intended to achieve a reduction in the level of family violence in the medium to long term and, in the shorter term, improve safety for adult and child victims as well as changing the offending behaviour of those responsible for the violence.

Safe at Home The Safe at Home program is overarched by the Family Violence Act 2004.

Safe at Home is founded on the principle of ‘primacy of safety of the victim’ and police provide a pro-intervention, pro-arrest, and pro-prosecution response. (If there is evidence of family violence but no complaint from the victim, police will be proactive in their intervention, arrest and prosecution).

Youth Justice Act 1997

The objective of the Youth Justice Act 1997 is to appropriately administer youth justice with an emphasis on diverting young people who have admitted

committing an offence away from the criminal justice system by emphasising informal cautions, formal cautions, community, family, and conferencing.

Importantly, the Youth Justice Act seeks to encourage youths to take personal responsibility for their actions. Other principles that oversee the Act include that

youth are not to be treated more severely than an adult would be and that victims and guardians are given an opportunity to participate in the process of

dealing with the youth.