HC Deb 22 March 1991 vol 188 c247W
Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what financial and other resources are being given to local authorities in order to promote crime prevention initiatives for Crime Prevention Week;

(2) what financial and other resources are to be given to local voluntary groups for Crime Prevention Week; and if he will make a statement;

(3) what financial and other resources are to be given to (a) local authorities and (b) local voluntary groups to build upon the work and activities of Crime Prevention Week.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 21 March 1991]: The Crime Prevention Week is a Home Office initiative which does not extend to Scotland. Crime prevention publicity is undertaken in Scotland through the Secretary of State's crime prevention committee. The committee has recently developed a new national publicity campaign with a distinctly Scottish flavour. The first phase of the campaign, which ran for the whole of February, involved a new Scottish television commercial and extensive press advertising at national and local level to highlight the level of opportunistic crime and to promote the merits of domestic and vehicle security measures. Associated with the campaign is also a new Scottish version of the crime prevention handbook—"The Family Guide"—which is being widely distributed.

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