Police and Crime Plan 2025 - 2029

Police and Crime Plan 2025 - 2029

The Police and Crime Commissioner is responsible for producing the Police and Crime Plan 2025 - 2029. 

The plan helps sets the strategic direction and priorities for Dyfed-Powys Police. The overarching vision for 2025-29 is to keep the communities of Mid and West Wales safe, maintaining trust and confidence in our police and criminal justice system as a whole.

Dyfed-Powys Police Delivery Plan 2025 to 2029

The plan clearly sets out our aims as a service for 2021 - 2025 and puts context to how we will deliver our priorities as a service. See the download below.

Priority 1: Supporting Victims and Preventing Victimisation

• Our criminal justice agencies, support services, and all who engage victims, demonstrate the four key principles of procedural justice in their practices.
• Practices, policies and processes facilitate and encourage victim engagement and participation throughout their criminal justice journey.
• Crimes are recorded in line with national standards to ensure victims receive the appropriate response and support in a timely manner.
• Victims’ and witnesses’ rights are promoted and upheld at all stages of their journey through the criminal justice system.
• Victims feel confident in the support they receive from Dyfed-Powys Police, receiving timely contact after reporting a crime.
• Personalised and specialist support is accessible to all victims, regardless of their location or the nature of the crime.
• Victims of domestic abuse, rape and serious sexual offences receive a prompt and appropriate response, in line with national operating models.
• Opportunities for repeat victimisation are reduced through effective safeguarding.
• Safeguarding partners and support services provide wraparound, whole-system support to vulnerable people, in particular, child victims of sexual exploitation, abuse, and sexual harassment.
• Our communications and actions demonstrate that violence against women and girls is not tolerated inside or outside policing.
• Victims, witnesses and survivors are encouraged to share their feedback,
  scrutinise and assist in improving victims’ services, in a trauma-informed way.

Priority 2: Supporting Safe Communities by Preventing Harm

• Individuals, communities and organisations are resistant and resilient to the impact of crime and anti-social behaviour in the physical and cyber worlds.
• Policing services are visible and accessible, meeting the needs of the
  urban and rural communities they serve.
• Police and partners work with local communities to problem solve and
  deliver crime prevention activities.
• Road safety initiatives are evidence-led and effective at addressing the main causes of road traffic collisions and injuries.
• Disruptive activity reduces the threat from, and prevents people from
  engaging or re-engaging in, Serious Organised Crime.
• Multi-agency approaches to diversion and treatment, which identify and
  address underlying needs, reduce drug harm in our communities.
• Prevention activity safeguards vulnerable people from being criminally,
  economically, or sexually exploited.
• Workers and businesses are protected from the threat of retail crime, including theft, cyber-crime, fraud and abuse against retail workers.
• Our policing services delivered to children and young people in education
  settings and communities build trust and confidence in the police.
• Prevention activities meet local needs, delivering intervention at the earliest opportunity.
• We understand and can respond to national threats and local issues, such
  as terrorism, public disorder and civil emergencies, which may impact the
  communities in the Dyfed-Powys Police area.

Priority 3: Supporting a More Effective Justice System

• Residents served by Dyfed-Powys Police have trust and confidence in
  the local criminal justice system.
• The right outcomes for all involved are delivered in a timely manner.
• Rapid action is taken against perpetrators of the most serious crimes which cause the greatest harm.
• Our interventions are needs-led, resulting in fewer people, especially children and young people, reoffending or becoming involved in the criminal justice system.
• Children’s rights are promoted and protected, empowering them to take
  control of their lives and futures.
• A restorative approach is routinely offered, in addition to any formal outcome, to victims of any crime type.
• We promote a trauma-informed, anti-racist, gender responsive,
  psychologically led approach that recognises the vulnerability of children,
  young people and adults which improves their life chances.
• Women in the Criminal Justice System are supported through a whole system approach, leading to fewer female offenders entering the criminal justice system.
• Where individuals must be detained in police custody, they are held in safe
  environments and their rights and entitlements are upheld.

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