Evaluating Violent Crime in Bolton Town Centre – Executive Summary

In early 2007 Perpetuity evaluated violent crime in Bolton town centre. The evaluation provided the local Community Safety Partnership with insights into the management of both the day time and night time economy and assessed the effectiveness of the current approach to tackling violent crime. More specifically the evaluation had four key aims: (1) To identify how different violent crime reduction projects work in the town centre. (2) To evaluate how effective individual projects are at addressing the problems of violent crime in the town centre.Manage and reduce the risks to staff, data, premises and equipment. (3) To evaluate the overall strategic response to violent crime and how individual projects fit into the strategy. (4) To identify any aspects of the violent crime problem that are not being addressed.

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