Summary
The present document is one of the methodology guides included in the Safety Diagnosis Tool Kit for Local Communities. It is designed to assist with the process of identifying crime and safety problems as they are perceived by key informants. These people are consulted because of their expertise, their experience or their role in the community and the useful knowledge they can contribute to safety diagnoses. Semi-structured interviews with key informants differ from telephone surveys in that they can be used to gather essentially qualitative data from a small number of people.