Safe Canning Strategy

The Strategy will enable a broader and less rigid framework to guide the City’s ongoing community safety priorities. This flexible approach allows the City to meet current community priorities.

This is different from previous Community Safety and Crime Prevention plans. These plans had specific goals, actions, and success measures for a fixed term. This proved to be restrictive and didn’t provide the City with flexibility to meet emerging community safety issues.

The factors that impact community safety are not confined to any one given cause or area. It is a range of elements that together combine to influence safety outcomes, both positive and negative.

When looking back on previous plans and community safety surveys, there are recurring themes relating to:

• People
• Place
• Partnerships

These are the City’s three focus areas. These areas capture the safety concerns important to the Canning community.

The Strategy provides the guiding structure for how the City will enhance community safety. It is supported by the Implementation Action Plan. This plan outlines the initiatives and programs the City will undertake.

The Plan and its ongoing review comprises several key steps, which together form the Safe Canning Strategy Cycle. The cycle will be an annual process to ensure our focus remains live and fluid.

Consult

A Community Safety Survey will be conducted annually. The survey provides a platform to seek ongoing community feedback and input.

Prioritise

Priority actions will be determined through consultation with the community and key stakeholders. Priorities will also be set based on changes in:

• local crime trends
• demographic and census data.

Implement

Actions will be assigned to one or more of the Plan’s focus areas (People, Place, Partnerships).

Report

Community safety outcomes and successes will be promoted to the community via the City’s social media channels and the release of an annual Community Safety Report Card.