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New South Wales initiatives

• State Government
• Localities and councils
• Other initiatives, projects and research

New South Wales Government

• NSW government graffiti information page
• Closed circuit television in public places : guidelines (PDF 312kB)
• Evaluation of the NSW Government's CCTV guidelines (PDF 833kB)

Attorney General's Department

• Crime Prevention Division
• Projects and resources directory
• Directory of NSW Government crime prevention programs
• Local government crime prevention planning
  -Applying for safer community compacts
  -Crime prevention resource manual
  -Developing a crime prevention plan
  -Evidence-based crime prevention planning tool
  -Examples of problems and strategies (Microsoft Word 37kB)
  -How to develop local crime prevention plans
• Property crime victimisation and crime prevention on farms
• Violence Against Women Specialist Unit

Office of Children and Young People

• Getting in early to prevent crime
  Gillian Calvert. Crime prevention conference, 2002

Department of Gaming and Racing

• Liquor accords - local solutions for local liquor problems (PDF 276kB)
• Underage drinking prevention program (PDF 99kB)
• Young people and alcohol

Department of Local Government

• Report on crime prevention planning and initiatives survey (PDF 183kB)

Premier's Department / Communitybuilders NSW

• Community solutions and crime prevention
• Community drug action
• Safe and healthy communities
• Working together in strengthening rural communities

Department of Urban Affairs and Planning

• Crime prevention and the assessment of development applications (PDF 33kB)

Department for Women

• The safe women project

New South Wales Police Service

• Community safety and crime prevention
• Policing, communities and crime prevention - a co-operative approach
  Commissioner Peter Ryan. Fourth national outlook symposium on crime in Australia, 2001
• Strategic Treatment Options for Police (STOP) in the rural context
  Sandra Bilson and Renee Forbes. Presented at the Character, Impact and Prevention of Crime in Regional Australia conference, 1-3 August 2001

New South Wales localities and councils

Albury

• A safer community

Armidale Dumaresq

• Armidale Dumaresq community safety plan 2004

Ballina

• Ballina Shire crime prevention plan

Bankstown

• Canterbury/Bankstown community solutions and crime prevention
• Community safety
• Community safety and crime prevention plan 2003-2007 (PDF 540kB)
• Youth crime prevention plan 2003-2006 (PDF 123kB)

Blacktown

• Mt Druitt community solutions and crime prevention

Bourke

• Community solutions and crime prevention

Brewarrina

• Crime prevention and community development strategies, 2002-2005

Byron

• Community safety plan 2003 (PDF 418kB)
• Prevention of crime and violence at special events
  Greg Downes. Partnerships in Crime Prevention conference, 1998
• Safe celebrations: harm minimisation strategies involving youth at special events
  Sandra Nicoll. Safer communities: strategic directions in urban planning conference, 1998

Campbelltown

• Community safety
• Campbelltown City crime prevention plan

Canterbury

• Canterbury/Bankstown community solutions and crime prevention
• Canterbury community safety and crime prevention
• Local government - Canterbury
  John Hatzistergos. Partnerships in crime prevention conference, 1998
• Successful application in urban community safety
  John Hatzistergos. Safer communities : strategic directions in urban planning conference, 1998

Cessnock

• Crime prevention and community development strategies, 2002-2005

Coffs Harbour

• Women's safety project awards (media release, 31 Oct 2003) (PDF 100kB)

Dubbo

• Dubbo crime prevention plan, July 2002 (PDF 148kB)

Fairfield

• Crime prevention program (PDF 27kB)
• Cabramatta city watch
• Community safety tips for the residents of Fairfield City (PDF 2.93 MB)
• Fairfield City Council safety program "...implementation of successful strategic and multi agency partnerships to improve community safety..."
  Doug Mckenzie. The character, impact and prevention of crime in regional Australia conference, 2001
• Implementation of strategic partnerships and effective practices
  Doug McKenzie. Reducing criminality: partnerships and best practice conference, 2000
• A community perspective on police initiatives in working with the NESB community
  Quang Dao. Criminal justice system in a multicultural society conference, 1993
• Crime prevention and local government in New South Wales
  Russell Hogg. National overview on crime prevention conference, 1991

Gosford

• Community solutions and crime prevention

Great Lakes

• Great Lakes safe communities project: Annual report 2004/05

Hastings

• Crime prevention in the Hastings
• Hastings community drug action team
• Hastings crime prevention strategy 1998: Table of contents (PDF 9kB) | Introduction and demographics (PDF 79kB)| Strategy table (PDF 56kB)
• The initiatives of the Hastings Council in crime prevention and community safety
  Craig Milburn. Partnerships in crime prevention conference, 1998

Hurstville

• Graffiti solutions local government pilot project final report (MSWord 1128kB)
  New South Wales Graffiti Information; Rockdale City Council

Kempsey

• Community solutions and crime prevention
• Local government - crime prevention and community safety
  John Bowell. Presented at Partnerships in Crime Prevention conference, 25-27 February 1998

Kings Cross/Woolloomooloo

• Community solutions and crime prevention

Lake Macquarie

• Lake Macquarie Crime Prevention Plan 2009-2011
  Lake Macquarie City Council

Liverpool

• Miller community solutions and crime prevention

Manly

• Manly crime prevention plan

Moree

• Community solutions and crime prevention
• Place management in Moree
  Jim Boyce, Occasional seminar presented at the Australian Institute of Criminology, 5 June 2000

Mosman

• Mosman community safety
• Local solutions to local crime and safety issues: key result areas and activities (PDF 8kB)

Newcastle

• Community safety fact sheet, 2004 (PDF 24kB)
• Crime prevention plan, March 2001 (PDF 318kB)

Nimbin

• Community solutions and crime prevention

North Sydney

• Community safety plan, September 2005 (PDF 509kB)
• Safe place program

Orange

• Community safety projects

Parramatta

• Parramatta community safety and crime prevention plan 2002-2005

Penrith

• Penrith Valley community safety
• Community safety plan, June 2002

Pittwater

• Pittwater crime prevention plan 2004-2007 (PDF 706kB)

Port Stephens

• Port Stephens crime prevention plan 2006-2009

Queanbeyan

• Queanbeyan community safety
• Safe Communities and Neighbourhoods Committee

Richmond Valley

• Richmond Valley community social plan 2001

Ryde

• Ryde projected safe community
  WHO Collaborative Centre on Community Safety Promotion, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

Shellharbour

• Shellharbour safer communities program
• Warilla community solutions and crime prevention

Shoalhaven

• Living futures Shoalhaven : towards a safer community
• Nowra community solutions and crime prevention

City of Sydney

• Sydney safe city strategy 1998-2001
• Redfern-Waterloo community safety plan, March 2004
• Redfern-Waterloo Partnership Project
• An evaluation of the safe city strategy in Central Sydney (PDF 557kB)
  Christine Coumarelos, New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, 2001

Tamworth

• Tamworth crime prevention plan 2005-2007 : stage 1 - city plan (PDF 5.17MB)

Taree

• Taree crime prevention plan 2004-2007
• Community solutions and crime prevention

Uralla

• Uralla community and social plan 2004-2009
  See p.56, 'Strategy for community safety'

Wagga Wagga

• Wagga Wagga community safety and crime prevention plan 2000 to 2003
• Wagga Wagga crime and safety profile - August 1999

Walgett

• Community solutions and crime prevention

Warringah

• Warringah safe communities

Wyong

• Community solutions and crime prevention
• Tuggerah Lakes Police Accountability Community Team

Wollongong

• Community safety
• Wollongong crime prevention plan 2000 - 2003
• Community solutions and crime prevention : Bellambi/Corrimal | Port Kembla | Warrawong/Berkeley

Other initiatives, projects and research

• Crime Stoppers NSW
• Dealing with graffiti in New South Wales
  Rachel Callinan, New South Wales Parliamentary Library briefing paper, 2002
• Mentoring for young offenders - results from an evaluation of a pilot program
  Marie Delaney and Chris Milne, ARTD Management and Research Consultants. Crime prevention conference, 2002
• A role for place management and geographic information systems in crime prevention?
  Peter Herborn and Murray Lee. The character, impact and prevention of crime in regional Australia conference, 2001
• Families, building communities and preventing crime
  Gillian Calvert. Children and crime: victims and offenders conference, 1999
• Partnerships in crime prevention - NRMA CrimeSafe
  Margaret Miller. Partnerships in crime prevention conference, 1998
• Care maximisation and celebrating public places as safe places
  Graeme Dunstan. Safer communities: strategic directions in urban planning conference, 1998
• Why and how ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ANTI-VIOLENCE MOVEMENT was formed
  Ken Marslew. Partnerships in crime prevention conference, 1998
• Streets ahead : the rhetoric and reality of youth participation in neighbourhood crime control and prevention : a case study
  Don Robertson. Private Sector and community involvement in the criminal justice system conference, 1992