Decision details

The reasons for the decision are:

In October 2021, The Home Office announced funding to be made available to GMP via GMCA to undertake community based work to tackle Western Balkan led criminality in Bury, implementing Prepare, Prevent and Protect objectives to tackle serious and organised crime. For 2022/23, this totals up to £172,000.

This project is part of two wider Home Office programmes – Serious and Organised Crime Community Coordinators, which have operated in 6 other sites across England for the last three or four years, and the Western Balkans programme, which delivers both UK and origin country based interventions to reduce offending, build community resilience and safeguard individuals and communities at risk of being drawn into or affected by serious and organised crime.

The total spend is split between three key budget lines, with the community coordinator staff allocating project spend to the most appropriate activity locally to meet the stated project objectives.

GMCA transfers to GMP up to £172,000 to deliver on 2022/23 requirements for the Home Office funded Western Balkans Serious and Organised Crime Community Coordinator programme in Bury. This is split as per the below:

Staff costs: £42,000 to pay for Community Coordinator costs.

Project costs: £120,000 to deliver projects to prevent and minimise the impact of western Balkan related criminality.

Evaluation costs: £10,000 to evaluate the project delivery over the year