The Award of Funding under the Safer Streets Programme
Prior to the September 2013 Federal election, the Coalition released its Plan for Safer Streets policy. In announcing the policy in October 2012, the then Leader of the Opposition noted that the Safer Streets programme would:
- provide grants to ensure needed local infrastructure such as better lighting, CCTV [closed circuit television] and mobile CCTV can be rolled out in crime hotspots
- address crime and anti‐social behaviour by helping local communities to implement cost‐effective measures;
- be funded from a pool of $50 million to ‘help deliver effective solutions’, and
- redirect funds confiscated under proceeds of crime legislation.