Guidance and counselling services

Description

The Police and Crime Commissioner, (‘the PCC’), has a wide remit to cut crime and improve community safety in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Plan 2013-18 sets out the PCC's intentions to achieve safer communities and improve trust and confidence in high quality policing by reducing crime and antisocial behaviour, ensuring fairer treatment of victims and citizens and demonstrating using public resources wisely. The plan includes a specific commitment to ‘protect, support and respond to victims, witnesses and vulnerable people’. Police and Crime Commissioners were given the power to commission local support services for victims of crime by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act in March 2014. PCC's Victims' Strategy outlines a vision for victims: ‘Victims and survivors in Nottinghamshire are resilient and less likely to be re-victimised; empowered to cope and recover from crime and anti-social behaviour by timely and effective victim-centred support from local services, families and communities’. Strategic objectives include building victims' resilience to cope and recover from crime and anti-social behaviour and reducing re-victimisation. The PCC's vision for RJ is: ‘RJ activity is victim focused and is offered and available at any stage of the victim's journey, ensuring their safety, and enabling them to better cope and recover from crime and anti-social behaviour.’ Strategic objectives include ensuring that RJ activity is victim-centred, increasing victims awareness and understanding of RJ, ensuring it is delivered by highly skilled experienced and accredited practitioners, expanding the delivery of RJ.