The ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ initiative is a multi-agency partnership tactic, designed by the Home Office and endorsed by the Policing Inspectorate to help areas affected by crime. The tactic is comprised of three stages:
- ‘Clear’ – Police engagement in an area to target criminality with patrols, disruption and arrests.
- ‘Hold’ – Police maintain presence with partner agencies engagement. Establish local community relationships, provide prevention and intervention measures away from criminality.
- ‘Build’ – Police reduce activity to a minimum, while partnership and council engagement increases to build on the infrastructure in order to help local communities with services and benefits uptake.
SODA were commissioned to support the ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ initiative by providing profiles on 3 areas where it was being implimented: