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National Community Safety Plan

My right honourable friend the Minister for Policing, Security and Community Safety (Hazel Blears) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. I have today placed in the Library of the House a copy of the national community safety plan which incorporates the national policing plan 2006–09. The national community safety plan is the first of its kind. It sets out central government's key community safety priorities for the next three years and our minimum expectations of each of our partners, to underline the very broadly based nature of community safety work. Its aim is to join up the approach to community safety across central government, to instil a new relationship between public services and the communities they serve in the community safety field and to encourage a deeper and more mature relationship between central government and their partners in this area. The delivery of community safety requires a multi-agency approach and the police are key players, so the national policing plan is now embedded within the national community safety plan. This, the fourth national policing plan, sets the framework and context for policing in England and Wales for the next three years. It will inform local police planning and help to ensure that all communities know what they should expect from their local police force. The national community safety plan is available on the web at www.crimereduction.gov.uk/ncsp.