8 Duties to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence

Part 2 Prevention, Investigation and Prosecution of Crime

Chapter 1
Functions Relating to Serious Violence

Functions relating to serious violence

8  Duties to collaborate and plan to prevent and reduce serious violence

(1)     The specified authorities for a local government area must collaborate with each other to prevent and reduce serious violence in the area.

(2)     The duty imposed on the specified authorities for a local government area by subsection (1) includes a duty to plan together to exercise their functions so as to prevent and reduce serious violence in the area.

(3)     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

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