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Labour Party conference: Jacqui Smith speech; Jacqui Smith speech SOT- With local police stats that give a clear picture of what's happening in our neighbourhoods, with a new 50m pounds capital fund to give the police access to 21st Century crime-fighting technologies like handheld computers and mobile fingerprinting devices, but tackling crime and anti-social behaviour in our communities isn't just a job for the police alone - it involves councils and businesses, schools and parents, and voluntary and community groups as well / So Hazel Blears and I now want to go further, and introduce shared pots of money for local policing that our communities have a say in spending / Let me be clear, I've zero tolerance of anti-social behaviour, and zero tolerance of its causes, causes like alcohol misuse, so from Monday, we are giving councils and police new powers to take the licences away from dodgy premises, we should give no time to the idea that just because you're drunk and incapable that somehow lets you off the hook, and incidentally, why celebrate drunken behaviour on our TV screens? Alcohol misuse can cause real damage to real people, and I've zero tolerance of homes being broken into or bags being snatched to feed a drug habit - and zero tolerance of people not getting drug treatment when they need it / Together, we've already doubled the numbers of users getting treatment, and drug-related crime has been cut as a result- That's my approach, tough enforcement, backed up with prevention and support to help users get their lives together as well as getting their heads together, and on sexual assault and rape, the same approach, better investigation and prosecution of serious sexual offences, greater support for victims / And today I am announcing start-up funding for new Sexual Assault Referral Centres in Hull, Liverpool, Plymouth, Rotherham, Gloucester and Cheshire, where we need to take targeted action to deal with particular types of crime, we're doing so / ...