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This paper analyses the role of social landlords in local partnerships for security and crime prevention. In a field that the State no longer regulates alone, it highlights the growing involvement of these actors in the area of security, based on a situational prevention approach, in response to requests from their tenants, but also to the delegation of responsibilities by municipalities and the State. With police and criminal justice actors, the avoidance that traditionally prevailed has been replaced by a more regular, give-and-take relationship. Action networks have been set up around shared issues, with varying degrees of durability, to share information and sometimes coordinate action. However, these partnerships are marked by shifts in action priorities, disjointed timeframes and limited exchanges of information, reflecting different modes of action.