Recent trends in crime prevention and community safety in Slovenia have been characterised by the influence of ideas of crime prevention in Western societies, especially with the idea of community responsibilisation and involvement of local administration in setting priorities in safety/security efforts and prevention of everyday criminal offences. Since 1998 eighty local safety/security councils have been established. The police initiated the establishment of all councils. The councils have been situated within the local town/city/municipality administration as a consultative body in crime and safety/security matters. A legal basis for such councils is the Police Act and the Local Self-administration act. It is necessary to stress that both paragraphs are more or less “recommendations”. Therefore, a consultative body (a safety/security council) can be established by a municipality council. None piece of national legislation determines the obligations of such councils. The results of research based on 178 members of local safety/security councils imply problems related to definition of local crime prevention, community policing, disparities between proclaimed ideas and practice of crime prevention. The role of such councils is still debatable. It is also necessary to stress the necessity of criminological analysis of local crime and safety/security problems. So far, the majority of such councils have drawn conclusions mainly upon the police presentation of crime problems in their communities and »public opinion« about the root causes of criminality in their environments. Expectations of the police are related to more responsible local citizens but there exist a paradoxical weak bond of the police with local communities. In addition, a research on feasibility of the Council of Europe's urban crime prevention recommendation was conducted as well.