PCCs Preventing Crime

PCCs, PFCCs and Deputy Mayors play a crucial role in preventing crime, improving community safety and rehabilitating offenders across England and Wales.

Over the coming weeks, a number of films will be shared on this page, including interviews with stakeholders and partner organisations who have benefitted from PCC-driven projects that help to tackle the underlying causes of crime and improve community safety. These films highlight the unique role that PCCs and their equivalents play in facilitating programmes to address the root causes of criminal behaviour, as well as showing that PCCs can deliver more at a local level in supporting and leading existing prevention partnerships.

Elected Police and Crime Commissioners, PFCCs and Deputy Mayors deliver prevention through their extensive partnership work, commissioning and grant making, and by holding chief constables to account.

The best way to prevent crime is to stop it happening in the first place, and that is why PCCs have adapted a whole-system approach by working with partners across not just policing, but in health, social care, local authorities, and charities.