The Anti-Violence Campaign 2009-2010

 Anti-Violence Campaign 2009 – 10

This year’s campaign consists of two intensive phases, Public Space Violence and Domestic Abuse, each carried out over six months. Each phase starts with a month of analysis, followed by a month of planning and discussion with partners. There will then be a two month period of concentrated enforcement activity before the phase undergoes a month long evaluation. Each phase is rounded off with a month of feedback, in which forces share best practice in order to further strengthen their future responses to these issues.

Public Space Violence

Public Space Violence refers to any violence that takes place in a public area. This covers gang violence, alcohol fuelled violence and violence involving weapons. Previous campaigns have featured separate phases dedicated specifically to weapons, alcohol and gangs. This broader approach will allow forces greater flexibility to respond to those issues that are of most concern locally whilst still supporting the broader national aspirations for a reduction in violence.
 
The Public Space Violence phase runs from April 2009 until September 2009.

Domestic Abuse

Domestic Abuse is arguably the core of a national culture which sees violence as a behavioural norm – only by challenging and changing this can attitude can we begin to tackle the problem of violence as a whole.

Partnership working and information sharing are key to this: victims often experience multiple incidents of domestic abuse before they report; many are reluctant to report to the police at all. Therefore as well as focusing on enforcement, this phase will also look at building and developing local partnership arrangements in order to provide a more coherent, holistic approach.

The Domestic Abuse phase runs from October 2009 until March 2010, and will feature a special conference to be held on March 10 2010.