Catalogue description Home Office: Police and Crime Prevention (PCP Symbol Series) files

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Details of HO 528
Reference: HO 528
Title: Home Office: Police and Crime Prevention (PCP Symbol Series) files
Description:

The content of the series is strongly policy based. The series contains: the development of crime prevention policy and strategy together with initiatives for specific crimes such as personal safety, car crime, fraud and crime on public transport; local crime prevention initiatives; the regulation of the private security industry; crime prevention research; the analysis and review of Police operational policy against specific crimes such as child abuse, murder and drugs; Home Office input into ministerial committees, select committees, inter departmental meetings and conferences on crime prevention and strategy.

Date: 1989-1997
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See also:

HO 287

HO 377

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PCP Symbol
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Home Office, Criminal Policy Department, 1987-

Physical description: 73 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2015 Home Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Crime Directorate leads on that part of the Home Office's strategy, policy and legislation that is aimed at preventing and reducing crime. The array of issues the directorate covers includes: anti-social behaviour, violent crime, youth crime, reducing re-offending, drugs and alcohol as enablers of crime, partnerships as inhibitors of crime and licensing of controlled drugs. Prior to the formation of the Crime Directorate, crime prevention policy sat within F3 Division of the Police Department.

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