City Safe plan

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Purpose and scope

The aim of the City Safe Plan is to guide the council's role in improving community safety in Auckland for the next 5 years. The plan covers the whole of Auckland city. The plan seeks to improve actual and perceived safety from crime and does not deal with injury prevention or road safety.

What is community safety?

Community safety means preventing, reducing or containing the social, environmental and intimidatory factors which affect people's right to live without fear of crime and which impact upon their participation in community life. It includes preventative measures that contribute to crime reduction and tackle antisocial behaviour.

Role of Auckland City in safety?

Safety is an emerging but important issue. Through the Community Outcome process, the safety of Auckland was identified as the most important outcome for our communities. This highlights the importance of safety as an underpinning factor of all parts of civic life. Safety and perceptions of safety dictate community and individual engagement with opportunities the city offers. The safety of our parks, streets and communities defines our interaction and therefore our social structure and support.

For this reason, the role of Auckland City in responding to safety varies. Broadly speaking the roles will include one or more of the following:

1. initiating projects that address safety concerns as part of council's core business
2. co-ordinating and supporting projects with a variety of external stakeholders
3. advocating to central and other Territorial Local Authorities any policy issues concerned with crime prevention and community safety
4. evaluating and monitoring crime reduction projects that are undertaken and contribute to community safety.

Published February 2007