Community Safety
Stonnington Council is committed to providing a safe community for everyone who lives, works and visits Stonnington. Community safety is about feeling safe to participate in a broad range of activities at a range of times and places. Community safety includes minimising and preventing personal injury and crime.
Community Safety consists of four key areas:
- Safe streets and neighbourhoods;
- Safe behaviour and social support;
- Safe transport, access and movement; and
- Community strengthening and partnership.
Community safety strategies involve activities and practices relating to:
- Providing information on a range of safety issues;
- Addressing the communities concerns and thoughts on safety;
- Preventing or controlling hazards and conditions that lead to personal harm (intentional or unintentional injury) or fear of harm;
- Positive, active participation of and partnerships between government, state organisations, non-government agencies and the wider community;
- Direct reduction of criminal events;
- 'Quality of life' issues, such as the fear of crime;
- Crime and safety issues being related to wider social and health problems (unemployment, abuse of alcohol and drugs); and
- Initiatives at the local level to alleviate community anxiety over the incidence and perceptions of crime and anti-social behaviour.
For more information about community safety contact Council's Corporate and Community Planning Unit on Ph: 03 8290 1333.