PART 6: COMMUNITY SAFETY AND JUSTICE

20 CRIME PREVENTION 231 / 20.1 Overview 231 / 20.1.1 Redfern and Waterloo community views 231 / 20.1.2 Crime statistics 234 / 20.2 Fear of crime 236 / 20.3 Urban design 237 / 20.4 Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) 237 / 20.4.1 The NSW Government and CPTED 238 / 20.4.2 Redfern, Waterloo, Eveleigh, Darlington (RED) Strategy 239 / 20.4.3 Maintenance and immediate improvements 239 / 20.5 Interventions with families at crucial transition points 241 / 20.5.1 Police youth strategies 243 / 20.5.2 Case coordination and brokerage of services 244 / 20.6 Redfern/Waterloo Anti-Drug Strategy 246 / 20.6.1 Background 246 / 20.6.2 Strategy implementation 246 / 20.6.3 Achievements of the RWADS 248 / 20.6.4 Liquor Licensing Accord 251 / 20.6.5 Demolition and closure of drug houses 252 / 20.6.6 Mobile Needle and Syringe Service 253 / 20.6.6.1 History 253 / 20.6.6.2 Health views 254 / 20.6.6.3 NSW Police views 254 / 20.6.6.4 Community views 255 / 20.6.6.5 Issues 256 / 20.6.6.6 Further Government actions 256 / 20.7 Community Safety Plan 258 / 20.8 Police community safety strategies 259 / 20.9 Fact Tree relocation 260 / 21 POLICING 263 / 21.1 Overview 263 / 21.2 Key challenges 264 / 21.2.1 Robbery 264 / 21.2.1.1 Incidents in Redfern 264 / 21.2.1.2 Incidents in Waterloo 265 / 21.2.2 Steal from motor vehicle 265 / 21.2.3 Break, enter and steal, and steal offences 266 / 21.2.4 Assaults 266 / 21.2.5 Drug offences 266 / 21.3 Police enforcement and intervention strategies 266 / 21.3.1 High Visibility Policing (HVP) 267 / 21.3.1.1 Operation Vikings 267 / 21.3.1.2 Operation Concertinas 268 / 21.3.2 Policing drug offences and related crime 268 / 21.3.3 Other operational policing strategies 269 / 21.3.3.1 Suspect Target Management Plan 269 / 21.3.3.2 Source management 269 / 21.3.3.3 Public Order Management 269 / 21.3.4 Special Operations 270 / 21.3.4.1 Operation Players 270 / 21.3.4.2 Operation Fury 270 / 21.3.4.3 SHARKX 270 / 21.3.4.4 Heroin Early Warning Indicators Program 270 / 21.3.5 Crime management strategies 271 / 21.4 Additional policing issues 272 / 21.4.1 Domestic violence 272 / 21.4.2 Bus operations 272 / 21.4.3 Aboriginal issues 274 / 21.4.3.1 Community views 274 / 21.4.3.2 Policing strategies 275 / 21.4.3.3 Policing challenges 276 / 21.5 Crisis management - Redfern riot on 15 February 2004 276 / 21.5.1 Events leading up to the riot 277 / 21.5.2 An account of the riot 277 / 21.5.3 Resulting investigations 279 / 21.5.4 Police review of the riot 280 / 21.5.4.1 Equipment 280 / 21.5.4.2 Awareness and preparedness 281 / 21.5.4.3 Communication/Command and Control 281 / 21.5.5 Community engagement following the riot 281 / 21.6 Broader policing strategies and issues that impact on the area 282 / 22 JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS 285 / 22.1 Overview 285 / 22.2 Pre-sentence interventions 285 / 22.2.1 Warnings and cautions under the Young Offenders Act 1997 285 / 22.2.1.1 Warnings 286 / 22.2.1.2 Cautions 286 / 22.2.1.3 Adult Cannabis Cautioning Scheme 287 / 22.3 Court options 287 / 22.3.1 Court orders for young offenders 287 / 22.3.2 Community based orders 289 / 22.4 Court ordered alternatives 290 / 22.4.1 Youth Justice Conferencing 290 / 22.4.2 Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT) program 293 / 22.4.3 Circle sentencing 294 / 22.4.4 Community Justice Groups 296 / 22.5 Post-release support programs for young people 297 / 22.6 Additional information 297 / Table 32: NSW recorded crime statistics 1999-2002 for Redfern, Waterloo, Chippendale and Darlington - Major trends 235 / Table 33: MERIT Referrals from Redfern Court since commencement 294 / Graph 13: Distribution statistics for the Needle Syringe Program - Redfern 249 / Figure 16: Locations of mobile needle and syringe van and demolished houses 250 / Figure 17: Boundaries of the NSW Police Redfern Local Area Command 263