Progressive Labour PartyThe PLP has pledged to implement “a new national crime reduction plan with input from a cross-section of community clubs and agencies working to reduce crime”.The party would provide the public with a crime reduction strategy setting out an action plan to make communities safer, and work with partners such as Crime Stoppers to reduce crime and its effects.It would support the existing inter-agency gang task force to reduce gun and gang violence, and “seek to eradicate the gang culture through education, tough enforcement and legislation”. The party has pledged to “introduce programmes to prevent our young people being attracted and enticed into the gang lifestyle”.It would provide additional resources to the Police Complaints Authority and ensure the police service is subject to regular inspections to promote efficiency and good practice. It would also “implement new performance indicators to improve police performance”.It has pledged to “provide resources and expertise for the continuing implementation of Bermuda’s national DNA database to help bring offenders to justice”.It also plans to end conscription and move to a smaller, full-time, professional Regiment to work in partnership with the police on marine policing and other initiatives.Finally, it would “amend the law to permit the naming of sex offenders” and “introduce a modernised sex offender registration programme to protect the rights of the community”.One Bermuda AllianceThe One Bermuda Alliance has hit out over what it describes as a lack of a “concrete plan put in action” by Government to stop gang violence.It said Government has been talking about an Operation Ceasefire programme since the Throne Speech in November 2011, but has yet to implement it.The OBA pledged to bring Operation Ceasefire in straight away to deal with gang violence, which is a “national emergency”.The police-community initiative has worked in some of the most violent cities in the United States.The party has also pledged to publish crime statistics on a website similar to that used in the UK — www.police.uk — which lists crimes and outcomes for each neighbourhood. A similar method is used in the US.The One Bermuda Alliance says it would plough more money into recreational organisations and youth organisations and fund community programmes through monies confiscated from criminals.The party would establish a crime-prevention working group that would see youth organisations, churches and communities work together on public safety. It has also pledged to institute a register of sex offenders that the public can access.