Engaging People, Protecting Communities:

DCI Mabs Hussain

(West Yorkshire Police)

HMP Governor Andy Johnson

(Prison Service Strategic Lead)

Why work together: criminal justice & health

Crime has both direct and indirect effects on health:

• Direct – through violence, injury, rape• Indirect – psychological consequences of injury,

victimisation and isolation• As a determinant of illness• Reduce effectiveness of health systems – violence

against staff• By preventable health burdens – alcohol related

crime, drug dependency and motor vehicle accidents.

Why work together: criminal justice & health

• Strong correlation between poor health, high levels of crime and poverty.

• Estimated that 15% of incidents dealt with by the police on a daily basis are mental health related.

• Estimated that the NHS spends over £1 billion on treating the victims of crime each year.

Why work together: the police as a public health placement

• Build partnerships – police, NHS, LA, VCS;• Bring a public health perspective and approach;• Bring public health skills;• Develop skills across the Public Health

Curriculum;• Improve health and reduce health inequalities;• Tackle the wider determinants of health;• Reduce crime and reoffending

How have we been working together?

• Learning disabilities prevalence study• Section 136 – Mental Health Act• Custody health needs assessment• Appropriate adults• Missing persons with mental health problems

West Yorkshire prison IOM hub

• 2009 vision of Chief Constable and Director of Offender Management– Closer to home– Intelligence informs resettlement

• Seconded Prison Governor

Cultural Change

Turning the Tanker !!

Prison and police partnership.

Gene Hunt Goes to Prison

Why a prison hub?• Create a communication portal

• Close the communication gap – Nominal disappearing act !!

• Prioritisation of most prolific

• Co-ordination of support services

• Manage golden 24 hour period “Hands on”

Who’s in the Prison Hub.

• A Prison officer-linked in to offender management and security

• IOM Police officers-linked into community IOM teams

• Probation officers-managing under 12 month offenders

• VCS-Housing experts• Police intelligence researchers

How does it work - A New Vision• Significant nominals of concern are tracked

through custody – Prison IT system• Intelligence and information relating to

significant nominals is shared on admission and release.

• Release plans for all nominals of concern including intelligence packs.

• Bespoke intelligence packages include significant information on an offenders associates, Security information etc.

• Enhanced Intelligence inform Offender Management/Security in custody.

Recent Developments

• A multi agency hub at HMP Wealstun focusing on longer term nominals of concern.

• A West Yorkshire hub – Building on the HMP Leeds model. Linking, sharing information and forging relationships with any prison which houses PPO/IOM nominals who will return to West Yorkshire on release.

New Territory and Innovation• Prisons and Police in partnership – PbR.

• Identification of aspiring nominals in custody.

• Hubs at HMP New Hall and YOI Wetherby to close the communication gap in the juvenile and female prison estate.

• A prison hub in each force in the region, linking the prison and police region.

• Satellite tracking of nominals of concern.

West Yorkshire: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way

• Don’t underestimate the cultural differences.

• Don’t underestimate the pace of change !

Any Questions?