Creating a safe neighbourhood involves collective efforts. A key approach for Council is to engage meaningfully with the community to support local resident and business networks.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is an evidence-based approach to designing user-friendly facilities and public spaces with the aim for reducing crime and making places feel safer.
CPTED is based on the idea that how places are designed, built, kept and managed can influence positive and negative personal behaviours and therefore affect an area’s safety.
Council supports and applies CPTED principles when developing new or updating existing public spaces, precincts and community facilities.
Check out Greater Dandenong’s current projects to provide your feedback about community safety issues and concerns.
Know your neighbours
When individuals feel safe within their communities, they are more likely to connect with friends, engage in community activities, and experience greater levels of trust and social connection.
By fostering connections among diverse groups, building trust, mutual respect, and understanding, residents become more engaged and cooperative. This interconnectedness encourages vigilance, with neighbours looking out for each other and reporting suspicious activities.
Greater Dandenong places an emphasis on supporting belonging, growing connection and championing cohesion.
Consider joining the local Neighbourhood Watch group and connect with neighbours to help reduce crime in our municipality.
Get to know your neighbours and create belonging and pride in our City. Visit Neighbours Every Day for tips on getting to know those next door.
Report incidents of discrimination
Discrimination covers a wide range of behaviour, for example, verbal abuse, racist or homophobic graffiti or physical assault.
A crime can be classed as a prejudice motivated crime if the victim or witness sees it as being so. If you are the victim of what you think is a discrimination or prejudice motivated crime, it is not your fault.
In line with Council’s commitment to multiculturalism and to the principles of human rights, the City of Greater Dandenong are hosting the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission Community Reporting Tool, to help address the challenge of under-reporting.
The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (the Commission) is an independent statutory body, with responsibilities under the Equal Opportunity Act 2010, the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001, and the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006.
The Community Reporting Tool enables community members to make a short, confidential and secure report directly to the Commission. Council has no access to these reports.