71 Community safety strategyN.I.
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(1)The [Department of Justice] must devise a strategy for enhancing community safety in Northern Ireland.
(2)References in this section ... 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 [Department 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 [Department 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 [Department of Justice] must publish each strategy devised by [the Department] and any alterations which [the Department] makes to a strategy (or the strategy as altered).