Curbing crime a mouse click away
EYEWITNESSES will be able to report hate crimes online as part of a landmark revamp of the Community Security Group (CSG).
EYEWITNESSES will be able to report hate crimes online as part of a landmark revamp of the Community Security Group (CSG).
The new streamlined body will draw together several state-based Jewish communal security organisations into a national entity, while retaining close ties with communities in each city, according to CSG Victoria executive director Simon Glynn.
“We’re working to raise the profile of the organisation within the community, and the website’s there to give people an understanding of what it’s all about and how they can get involved
with us.”
People who want to report incidents on the website instead of by phone will be able to so, and the site will also have a pay window for making donations.
“We’re also working together with the CSG groups in Sydney, Queensland and Western Australia to have a single national identity. We’ll be working under one name, the Community Security Group. At the moment, there are two different logos and two different organisation names,” he said, referring to the NSW and Queensland Communal Security Groups and the Victorian and West Australian Community Security Groups. “We’ll be working under one banner and one name.”
CSG will offer a national 1300 number, which will direct calls to the relevant state organisation, said Glynn. “This has very much been led by feedback from the community. If they’re travelling interstate, they don’t
necessarily know how to contact the local group, so this way, there’s only one number they need to know, and the information will flow internally from there.”
The new CSG Victoria website will go live by the end of the month. “It’s about giving the organisation a profile and a presence,” said Glynn, who has 14 years of experience heading up Britain’s Community Security Trust.
PETER KOHN
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