The Antrim DPP wants to know what your views are in relation to policing, crime prevention, and crime reduction.
The local policing service is provided for the benfit of everyone who lives and works in the Antrim Borough, and therfore it is only right that you have a say in how that policing service is delivered locally.
While the DPP can't solve all the problems that people in the Borough may have, if we don't know what they are, then we can't do anything about them.
Thus Antrim DPP every year carries out Community Consultation to find out what your views are, and to make sure that what the police are doing is actually solving the problems you feel need solving. If you would like to participate in consultation on policing and crime locally pease contact the DPP Development Manager.
Members of the Public at a DPP Public Meeting
Consultation can be done in a number of ways, and Antrim DPP will undertake: -
- Postal surveys where a questionnaire is sent out to community and voluntary groups throughout the Borough,and completed and returned annonymously.
- Face to face interviews where people at random are selected and asked to answer questions and give their views, again anonymously.
- Visits to schools where the DPP will visit schools to gain the views of young people using hightech digitally interactive technology that engages the young people.
- Focus Groups where selected groups, such as older people, can discuss in detail their views on specific issues.
- Analysis of other Consultation There are a number of groups, such as NISRA, who regularly undertake consultation on related issues, and the DPP analyses the results of such consultation and can use this information to assist its work.
The DPP is keen to identify any new ways of consulting with as many different groups and sections of the community as possible, particularly with ethnic minorities, so if you have any good ideas let us know, or if you represent an ethnic minority group locally please get in touch.
