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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 13 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 4565 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

urban design crime prevention strategies applicable across the whole of the ACT; and the second set is called the Civic Community Safety Policies - and these refer to recommended strategies which apply specifically to Civic.

There are over 100 pages of recommendations dealt with in the Implementation Report so it is not my intention to go through each recommendation one by one.

To illustrate our commitment to the crime prevention and safety principles inherent in the Report I draw the Assembly's attention to a range of programs and management processes already in place:

. A major recommendation of the report was that there should be a centralised and coordinated public place management structure put in place. This has occurred through the restructuring in the Department of Urban Services, and the incorporation of Planning and Land Management into that Department. Canberra Places, in the Department of Urban Services, organises an across agency Public Places Coordinating Committee, which responds to a range of issues relating to public place management in the ACT. The urban services and planning sectors of government, that you would normally expect to find on such a committee, are supported by representatives from such agencies as the Australian Federal Police, the Community Safety Unit, and the Registrar of Liquor Licensing. The consideration of safety principles is integral to the function of this committee.

. The report refers to the need to rejuvenate areas of the ACT to attract diverse groups of people back into dead spots in town centres. These

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