Government policies

Reducing burglary initiative

Starting dates

1999: rounds 1 and 2

2000: round 3

Key department Home Office
Key delivery agency Local partnerships
Budget/target/comment

Aims to reduce burglary nationally by targeting areas with the worst domestic burglary problems.

Round 1 and 2 applicants needed to have a level of burglaries twice the national average and schemes were limited to a duration of one year.  Round 3 applicants needed levels of burglaries 1½ times the national average and are of unlimited duration.

Between 1999 and 2002, an estimated 2 million homes were covered, preventing an estimated 15,000 burglaries per year.

A budget of £25 million over three years.

See the 2002 evaluation.

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