Nurul is a very passionate and strong believer in crime reduction and community safety. He is the Founder and Director of the Shaddywood Crime Reduction Project, a very successful, innovative and reputable crime reduction project in London. He is a specialist in youth crime reduction and has extensive knowledge and experience in the field. He has initiated and managed several highly successful crime reduction and community safety projects for Da'watul Islam UK & Eire, a leading community organisation in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Nurul successfully managed and coordinated the Metropolitan Police Service-Pathfinder Community Engagement Programme for the Bangladeshi community group in Tower Hamlets. The Pathfinder Community Engagement Programme was a research project aimed to identify key community priorities through research on issues and solutions to preventing and tackling crime and enhancing community safety.

Nurul is a leading and proactive crime reduction officer in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and sits in several crime reduction and community safety committees including the Tower Hamlets Police & Community Safety Board and the Tower Hamlets Violent Crime Board.

The Shaddywood Crime Reduction Project: The Shaddywood Project was set up in 2007 after the tragic shootings and knife attacks in London that took the lives of so many young people in that year.

The Shaddywood Project is a unique crime reduction project that has had huge impact in reducing crime in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It has become very popular and reputable through its success in youth engagement, rehabilitation and reformation. To date the Shaddywood Project has given a platform for over 300 hard-to-reach young people to freely and openly voice their views, concerns, complaints and issues in a comfortable and non threatening environment.

The project uses a range of highly innovative engagement methods, tools and interventions to reduce gun, gang, knife and drugs related crime through interactive workshops and diversionary activities in order to engage and reform hard-to-reach young people. The project has a non authoritarian approach of interacting with young people and treats young people with a high degree of respect, dignity and value, which has been one of its reasons for its success. Participation of the young people in the Shaddywood Project is based on an optional basis.

For further information about the Shaddywood Crime Reduction Project please visit: www.shaddywood.org.uk