3.1 The Bureau also enquired about the extent of active crime prevention activity undertaken by police forces to prevent and control the problem of deliberate fires.

3.2 Of those forces which responded, 44% undertook such activity primarily aimed at industry and commerce, 46% directed their efforts at householders and some 69% of forces engaged in crime prevention projects aimed specifically at school children.

3.3 A total of 38% of the forces participating in the survey carried out crime prevention programmes aimed at all three of the aforementioned groups.

3.4 Some 85% of the respondents had appointed a designated architectural liaison officer.

3.5 A number of forces gave details of further crime prevention initiatives which had been instigated locally to combat deliberate fires. These initiatives included County Risk Management Groups, the main object of which is to identify premises at greatest risk from crime of all kind; inviting fire brigade representatives to sit on Crime Prevention Panels and arranging joint seminars with fire brigades for industry, head teachers and school governors and community affairs departments.