Mr Adrian Lee

Chief Constable Northamptonshire Police

Ofsted/HMIC Inspection

Where are we now…

• Training over 1550 police officers and staff recognising and managing risk & vulnerability

• Staff growth in departments identified as carrying the greatest risk

• Work done with the High Tech Crime Unit to reduce the delays in examining computers

• Continual development of IT systems used to support safeguarding and risk management

• No backlogs in referrals

• HMIC re-inspection next week

Police

Health

Social Care & Housing

Education

MASH

Youth Offending & Probation

CJC and the MASH

Troubled Families Programme

National Plan to “turn around” 120,000 troubled families

Families identified by:

• Having no adult in family in employment• Children not being in school• Family members involved in crime and ASB

County target is 1200 families

Currently 1137 troubled families in Northamptonshire • 23 are open to Children’s Social Care (CSC) • 22 Looked After Children (LAC)• 103 Children In Need (CIN)

Troubled Families Programme

• Funding for troubled families is ‘payment by results’

• The government fund 5/6ths of troubled families and provide £4k per family. Local partners pay £6k, totalling £10k per family

• Northants Police are committed to the Troubled Families Programme

• C/Supt Paul Phillips is the force strategic lead. Also sits on the LSCB, is champion for the Common Assessment Frameworks (CAF) and chair of the Child & Young Persons Partnership Board (CYPPB)

Criminal Behaviour

Identify real issues behind a child’s offending• Why is the child stealing?• Why is the child using drink/drugs?

Looked After ChildrenDespite less than 1% of all children being in care• at least 1 in every 4 boys, &• 1 in every 2 girls, in custody, are looked after children

Offender or Victim?

• Numbers of children held in police custody overnight fell from 123 in 2010 to 85 in 2011

• The average for the Country in 2011 was 112

• Work with partner agencies to find somewhere safe for children to stay overnight if they cannot return home

• Work to reduce this further after HMIC’s inspection

Human Trafficking

EU Directive on Human TraffickingArticle 26 - Non-prosecution or non-application of penalties to the victim

• Sexual Exploitation• Forced Labour • Domestic Servitude • Criminality• Forced Begging• Organ Harvesting

• Baby Farming

Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

• “Barnado’s knows that sexual exploitation is going on in every town and city in the UK and child victims continue to go unidentified”

• All frontline staff being trained

• Partnership training

• Police-led - multi-agency CSE Team

• Hi-Tech Crime investment

Victims’ Voice – Young People

Findings

• Under-reporting - “I wouldn’t tell the police… Because I’m not a snitch. And because you know, they’re probably going to kill you if you do.”

• Police are intimidating - “Some of us find the police really intimidating, the whole system of reporting crime, sometimes that whole questioning thing makes you feel as if you’re being questioned. Perhaps a little bit more training needs to go into the officers who are actually asking the questions.” - “They are too busy with serious stuff.”

• Influence of parents - “I would have liked to go, to go to court, but my Mum wouldn’t let me”

• Tailored support from agencies – “Ask what the person wants from it. Just strategies, obviously it’s still happening, but I just block it out now, but they could have stopped that. I could have been, I could have just been carrying on with my life, if they’d told me from the off, ways to help me, but they didn’t.”

• Positive encounters with police - “Yes, because they understood how not every teenager fitted the general stereotype”

These findings led to seven recommendations

The ‘Re-act’ Programme for young people who have been identified as violence offenders.

Programme offers:

• Solution focused methodology to reduce violent behaviour• Conflict resolution and anger management• Film evidencing participation and highlighting successes   

Re-act Programme

Re-act forms part of a crime prevention/awareness programme

Prison, Not Me Programme

Prison, Not Me Programme rolled-out to Northamptonshire’s Secondary Schools

Programme includes:

• scenarios and consequences

• a presentation by an ex-prisoner

Prison, Not me Programme forms part of a crime prevention/awareness campaign

Human Utopia

Life changing courses for young people and adults in schools and their wider communities

Human Utopia Programme

Human Utopia forms part of a crime prevention/ awareness programme

• Police cadets learn about the police service and develop practical skills

• Established 3 years ago

• Open to young people aged 16-18

• Currently recruiting to expand to Kettering and Wellingborough

Police Cadets

Kettering cadets will work with local police and become part of the Kettering Safer Community Team, helping out at events and offering crime prevention advice.

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