Neighbourhood crime and antisocial behaviour, which launches today (17 May), says that council-wide attempts to record crime and antisocial behaviour often fail to identify specific areas of the community where there are problems.
To improve this, more attention needs to be paid to the views of local people, and frontline workers such as youth workers, who can provide more direct evidence of what an area is like.
Sharon Gernon-Booth, associate director of the Criminal Justice and Community Directorate at the commission, said: "Frontline workers - with young people - are absolutely key because they have got the relationships, and they know what it is like to live in these places."
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