Neightbourhood SIRCS
Neighbourhood-SIRCS is a social action network that will motivate and empower communities, individuals, partnerships and organisations to take an active part in reassuring the public, reducing crime and disorder, tackling environmental issues and in making communities safer. It will complement and join up existing local projects such as Speed Watch, Street Pastors and Neighbourhood Watch and dramatically improve information sharing.
NOTE: The Secure Incident Reporting and Community Engagement System (SIRCS) is a secure, encrypted online database that will allow each scheme to set a number of access permissions with the option of allowing the public restricted access to community intelligence. Members will be able to securely access this information 24/7 using the internet, intranet or mobile phones. The scheme has been designed to grow and information can be shared with other Safer Neighbourhood Teams as well as local scheme members. All police officers accessing Neighbourhood-SIRCS will have access to the SIRCS National Business Crime Reduction Database and the National SIRCS Environmental Database.
Active Participation and Community Engagement Auto Responder:
This new feature to SIRCS allows key messages to be sent to Neighbourhood-SIRCS users helping to build relationships with members starting the moment they sign up.
The Empowering-Communities Active Participation and Community Engagement Auto Responder can welcome new members, educate them about their scheme, send out surveys and feedback forms and promote key messages. Pro-actively selling the benefits of active participation will have a positive impact on local schemes.
Sustainability:
Neighbourhood-SIRCS schemes have been designed to be system dependent not people dependent to ensure the sustainability of each local scheme. Empowering-Communities can provide a fixed, low-cost administration support service to help ensure a scheme is not reliant on any one individual and to safeguard against the 'Founder' being the scheme.
It is important to remember that schemes that fail in the Introduction and Growth phases can be costly not just in financial terms but in terms of staff time, staff confidence, lost members and in lost community confidence in you and your organisation.
Neighbourhood-SIRCS is a set of procedures, actions and information that interact and work together. The operating system has been designed to have all the elements needed to make the scheme work.
Each local scheme will be encouraged to foster effective and sustainable partnerships with local authority departments, statutory bodies, local businesses and residents to improve the quality of life in their communities.
Note: At Empowering-Communities we run SIRCS user group meetings that help support the creation of sustainable partnerships, replication of best practices and the development of new initiatives to increase citizen participation to solve community problems. We will be applying these principles to Neighbourhood- SIRCS.
If you apply this model to your scheme and understand the relationship every 'founder' must have with their scheme you will serve your communities and members well. Starting a Crime Reduction Scheme in the right way is very rewarding.
'Your aim should be to build a scheme that will work without you. It is about you developing your scheme and not you being your scheme'. - Gary Pettengell, Founder Empowering-Communities
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