The Police and Crime Plan

The Plan's overall vision is a safe, just and inclusive West Yorkshire, underpinned by four priorities and three cross cutting themes.

West Yorkshire: Safe. Just. Inclusive.

Tracy Brabin

I see my Police and Crime Plan as a once in a generation opportunity to bring together partners and powers to create a ‘public health approach’ to policing and crime in West Yorkshire.

During my election campaign, in deciding priorities, I laid out ten manifesto commitments to the public, a number of which related to police and crime: keeping women and girls safe; increasing police officer and police staff numbers; putting victims first; and ensuring our police force represents the community it serves. But I also needed to know what the public thought, so with colleagues and my brilliant Deputy Mayor, Alison Lowe, we set about one of the widest consultations ever undertaken in the county.

I am pleased to be able to launch my Police and Crime Plan with an overall vision of a safe, just and inclusive West Yorkshire, underpinned by four priorities and three cross cutting themes. You can find out more and read the Plan below.

Tracy Brabin
Mayor of West Yorkshire


 

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Alison LoweThe success of this plan centres on working together. It will aim to strengthen partnership working across the different sectors through action, services, research, and a creative approach that will change and transform the culture, how people feel, and tackle inequality within the system across West Yorkshire.

Both Tracy and I are committed to leading change, trying new ways of working, and thinking outside the box, and I feel this plan embodies this approach and sets a clear, bold direction for a West Yorkshire that is safe, just and inclusive.

Alison Lowe
Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime


 

Vision - West Yorkshire: Safe. Just. Inclusive.

A clear vision for policing and community safety is an important statement in capturing what we are striving towards in West Yorkshire. It is there to bring a focus to our work, and clearly set out our ambitions to communities. We are working with our partners and stakeholders to shape this vision to ensure it reflects the engagement, knowledge and expertise of all organisations who work in the community safety field. We will continue to work alongside those with lived experience, and who have been harmed by crime, to inform and develop services for West Yorkshire. The three words of our vision safe, just, inclusive exemplify our clear long-term ambition for West Yorkshire.

 


Priority IconsPriorities

The four priorities have been chosen after extensive consultation with the public and partner organisations and analysis of risk and community safety need across West Yorkshire. The delivery of these priorities will be the Mayor’s focus over the next three years. The priorities are:

  • Supporting Victims and Witnesses and Improving Criminal Justice Outcomes
  • Keeping People Safe and Building Resilience
  • Safer Places and Thriving Communities
  • Responding to Multiple and Complex Needs


Cross Cutting Themes IconsCross Cutting themes

Three topics cut across everything we hope to achieve under this plan, and will influence our work in partnership, delivery, and commissioning. They reflect our ambition to create a safe, just, and inclusive West Yorkshire. The cross cutting themes are:

  • The Safety of Women and Girls
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Early Intervention and Prevention

 


Supporting Documents and Information
The Safety of Women and Girls Strategy

West Yorkshire is home to over 1.2 million women and girls, and every one of them should feel safe. Safe at home, at work, on a night out, walking in a park, anywhere.

The Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan sets out a clear vision for community safety in West Yorkshire, to be safe, just and inclusive, with the pledge of embedding the safety of women and girls at the heart of the plan.

The Safety of Women and Girls Strategy outlines how we will work in partnership with stakeholders in West Yorkshire, as well as at a regional, national, and international level to deliver on the pledge.

We will deliver change with voluntary, community and social enterprises, the private sector, local communities and most importantly, listen to the voices of women and girls, to improve the lives of all people across our region.

Read the Safety of Women and Girls Strategy.

Victims and Witnesses Strategy

Supporting victims and witnesses is one of the key priorities in the Police and Crime Plan.

People in West Yorkshire want to be safe, feel safe, have trust in their police, and know action will be taken if ever they or their loved ones are harmed.

The Victims and Witnesses Strategy has five clear themes:

  • Place Victims at the heart of the Criminal Justice Process
  • Equality of Access to Justice
  • Victims’ Journey
  • Children and Young People
  • Vulnerable Adults

Under each theme are statements of intent and ambition that reflect the our desire to improve the treatment of victims, survivors, and witnesses within the criminal justice system, and reduce trauma, including, crucially, trauma generated and re-lived through repeated contact with the criminal justice system.

Read the Victims and Witnesses Strategy.

Safer Places and Thriving Communities Strategy

‘Safer Places and Thriving Communities’ is a priority of the Police and Crime Plan 2021-24. This was informed by our #TellTracy public consultation, in which 95.5% of respondents agreed that this theme was an important priority for them.

The Plan sets out the Mayor’s intention to work with West Yorkshire Police and partners to focus on the harmful and unacceptable behaviour that targets the different communities of West Yorkshire through an ongoing commitment to neighbourhood policing and partnership working in localities.

Following the Police and Crime Plan consultation, the Mayor identified three clear areas of focus: neighbourhood crime, road safety, and serious violence.

This strategy outlines how we are focusing on these key themes as part of our commitment to ensuring our communities are safer and continue to thrive across West Yorkshire.

Read the Safer Places and Thriving Communities Strategy.

Reducing Vulnerability Strategy

Safeguarding and protecting those who are most vulnerable is a key theme running throughout the Police and Crime Plan.

A person is vulnerable if, as a result of their situation or circumstances, they are unable to take care or protect themselves, or others, from harm, exploitation, or other adverse impacts on their quality of life.

Safeguarding vulnerable people is central to the work of the police and local community safety partners and it is because vulnerability can take many forms that the response requires different agencies to work closely together to protect people from harm.

Our focus remains keeping people safe from (and preventing) harmful behaviour, exploitation, and abuse, and through this strategy we call on all agencies to continue their work to safeguard people through enhanced coordination and communication.

Read the Reducing Vulnerability Strategy.

The Voice of West Yorkshire

The Voice of West Yorkshire (PDF 970KB)
The Voice of West Yorkshire highlights and summary from the #Tell Tracy consultation on Policing, crime and community safety priorities within West Yorkshire covering our engagement and consultation from 1 September to 30 November 2021.

Summary Needs Assessment

Summary Needs Assessment (PDF 434KB)
The Summary Needs Assessment analyses the current risk and community safety need across West Yorkshire. The findings from this report helped shape the priorities and cross cutting themes in the Police and Crime plan. Unless stated otherwise all data is for the rolling 12 months to June 2021.

National crime and policing outcomes and measures

National crime and policing outcomes and measures (PDF 10KB)
The Home Office has developed six National Crime and Policing Outcomes and accompanying measures to help focus effort on key national priorities and measure performance. We are requirement to report on these measures as to how the Police and Crime Plan will contribute to them.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions
A list of frequently asked questions and answers on the Police and Crime Plan.