Page 5428 - Week 14 - Thursday, 30 November 2017
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Property Crime Prevention Strategy 2016-2020—Progress report—2016-2017.
I seek leave to make a statement in relation to the paper.
Leave granted.
MR RATTENBURY: The property crime prevention strategy 2016-20 includes a commitment for me to table a progress report in the ACT Legislative Assembly at the end of each year. Today I table that progress report. It provides an update on the government’s achievements against the actions in the property crime prevention strategy and the progress against the targets.
The strategy has six objectives, with 17 actions that centre around improving community connections, promoting personal responsibility for safeguarding property, improving data sharing and accessibility, responding collaboratively to the changes in the property crime environment, supporting vulnerable people and targeting recidivist offenders.
I am pleased to inform the Assembly that there has already been progress against all of the objectives. The report includes work on 13 of the 17 actions in the 10 months since the strategy was launched in September 2016 until the end of the financial year. Four actions are yet to commence, but there are plans to progress these over the remaining three years of the strategy.
Positive highlights include promoting community connectedness through supporting national Neighbour Day, expanding the home safety program, working towards more secure bicycle facilities in buildings, piloting the safer families grants program, and ACT Policing returning a significant amount of stolen property to owners.
For the first time, in March this year the ACT government partnered with Relationships Australia to boost promotion efforts around national Neighbour Day in the territory. Neighbour Day is Australia’s annual celebration of community, encouraging people to connect with those who live in their neighbourhood. We know that communities and neighbourhoods that are connected experience lower levels of crime.
Our partnership with Relationships Australia resulted in over 4,330 people connecting through local Neighbour Day events, and approximately 40,000 people being reached through social media promoting messages around connecting to your neighbours.
The ACT government-funded home safety program was expanded in 2016-17 to include educating vulnerable groups in our community about low-cost options to make houses more secure, through practical workshops. Ninety-one home safety assessments were conducted.
Earlier this year the government consulted with the community on a draft end of trip facilities general code in line with our vision for a healthy, active and vibrant city. Better quality and more secure end of trip facilities will support active living as well
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