PACT Information
Welcome to the Neighbourhood Improvement, PACT database.
What is Neighbourhood Improvement?
Neighbourhood Improvement is the police services commitment to improving your quality of life by working together with partners, targeting the issues that you identify as those that matter. Because this will be achieved by the police in your area working together with partners you may know it locally by a different name such as Neighbourhood Management or Safer Neighbourhoods.
Neighbourhood Improvement is based on local priorities identified by local people as the issues that need to be dealt with in their area and Police and partners will work together to tackle them. It is vital that local people work with them to improve the quality of life in their area.
This is your opportunity to influence the service provided by police and partners in your area.
PACT, the Partners and Communities Together process. As you might already be aware, PACT provides community members with the opportunity to decide on the 3 most important priorities that they want the community partners to deal with. This site provides information on PACT meeting dates, the identified priorities, and will contain a PACT news section to keep you updated on how the partners are working towards resolving the local priorities.
PACT meetings are held in every ward monthly or every 2 months. For more information click on the Meetings link on the left menu.
Each police force is working with partners and community members to define these neighbourhoods which may vary from force to force. A neighbourhood is usually a geographic area which is of a size that best serves the needs of the local communities reflecting the people that live within it.
A neighbourhood team can be made up of police officers, police community support officers, community wardens, special constables, volunteers and partners, all working together in partnership.
Neighbourhood Improvement means you will know who your neighbourhood officer is, how to contact them and what they are doing to address your local crime and disorder priorities.
Neighbourhood teams will work closely with residents to improve your neighbourhood. The police will continue to provide emergency and 24 hour response; but the main focus of neighbourhood policing teams will be dealing with your problems and priorities.
Neighbourhood Improvement officers
These are officers who are dedicated to working in designated neighbourhoods and who are not abstracted to duties elsewhere unless in extraordinary circumstances.
They are familiar and accessible to their local community, helping to identify local priorities and working with residents and partner organizations such as the local authority to find solutions to local crime and disorder problems.
For more information on Neighbourhood Improvement please visit the Home Office Neighbourhood Polcing Programme at: