Part 5Miscellaneous

Community safety

71 Community safety strategy

(1)

The F1Department of Justice must devise a strategy for enhancing community safety in Northern Ireland.

(2)

References in this section F2... to enhancing community safety in any place are to making the place one in which it is, and is perceived to be, safer to live and work, in particular by the reduction of actual and perceived levels of crime and other anti-social behaviour.

(3)

The F3Department of Justice may from time to time devise a new strategy or make alterations to a strategy.

(4)

Before devising or making alterations to a strategy the F4Department of Justice must consult—

(a)

the First Minister and deputy First Minister,

(b)

the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and

(c)

the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

(5)

The F5Department of Justice must publish each strategy devised by F6the Department and any alterations which F7the Department makes to a strategy (or the strategy as altered).