The Secretary of State for the Home Department ():...To improve the way PCCs
work in partnership with others to fight crime and support
victims: We need to see all public safety partners playing their
full part in the fight against crime. It is essential that PCCs
can bring local agencies together to tackle the issues that
blight their communities—like drugs misuse, anti-social behaviour
and neighbourhood crime. We will provide PCCs with the tools to
do this by strengthening the guidance that underpins their role
in convening partners to fight crime and drugs misuse, in line
with Dame Carol Black’s independent review on
drugs. We will also give PCCs a central role on local criminal
justice boards, support their work on violence reduction units
and clarify the local crime prevention landscape through an
in-depth review of community safety partnerships in England and
Wales. Of course, PCCs continue to play a vital role in
supporting victims of crime. The Ministry of Justice Victims’
Bill consultation considered how to expand and strengthen PCCs’
role in relation to oversight of victims’ experiences in the
criminal justice system and commissioning support services, and
so it was not examined within part 2 of the PCC review, but the
work is complementary and aligned. The consultation closed in
February, and the Government will introduce the Victims’ Bill as
soon as possible....
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