The West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) was set up in 2019, to work across the region and was designed to specifically prevent, tackle and reduce violent crime. It does this by tackling the root causes of violence and acknowledging that simply making more arrests, important though that is, will not solve the issues our region faces. The VRP invests in communities and sets up projects, that work to support people affected by violence, create routes out of it and most importantly, prevent it from happening in the first place.