... and information-sharing organisation for professional community safety officers though the membership is largely organisational. It is now a charitable company with a number of staff. 270 organisations now belong and membership has been extended to the police and fire services as well as the voluntary sector...

... practitioners have been given little opportunity to flex any professional muscle, despite the aspirations of many that community safety should have its own professional identity. It is against this background that we have conducted our survey, which has been interpreted in the light of our own, and others...