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Public safety - collaboration to reduce and prevent serious violence Duty
- Description
- Local authorities must consult with certain stakeholders and collaborate with the police and with stakeholders in order to plan to prevent and reduce serious violence.
Including a duty to plan together to exercise their functions so as to prevent and reduce serious violence in the area.
In particular, the specified authorities for a local government area must:
(a) identify the kinds of serious violence that occur in the area,
(b) identify the causes of serious violence in the area, so far as it is possible to do so, and
(c) prepare and implement a strategy for exercising their functions to prevent and reduce serious violence in the area.
- Modified
- 03 May 2023
- Status
- Live
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- requires
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