Newsflash: PCCs’ Community Safety Funds: revised information

We have previously advised, on the basis of information from the Home Office, that the PCCs Community Safety Funds are ringfenced from their wider policing budget. The Home Office has now sent us the following revised information:

 “The CSF is un-ringfenced, which means PCCs have total freedom to use it as they wish. However, the PCC role is much wider than just policing, and PCCs will be seeking to establish their wider crime prevention role. This is evidenced through the announcements many have made already on community safety priorities and ideas.”

 This makes it even more important that we make the case for the role of the Voluntary and Community organisations in addressing local community safety needs in order to ensure that the Community Safety Fund is not diverted.