• Police Surge Slide 1 • Violence Reduction Units Slide 2 & Spending Review Serious Violence Fund – Surge & Violence Reduction Units Presented at Chief Constables Council on 17 July 2019 Dan Greaves, Crime Director Alex Hurst, Head of the Serious Violence Priority Projects Unit Official - Sensitive
Police Surge £65 million has been allocated to help in the police’s immediate response to the rise in serious knife crime. £63.4 million o f this funding has been allocated to 18 police forces with the highest incidences of serious violence to pay for surge operational activity, such as increased patrols, and £1.6 million to help improve the quality of data on serious violence, particularly knife crime, to support planning and operations. 1 Funding Allocations: Spending Proposals • All forces intend to carry out surge policing activity in hotspot areas using overtime and other staff Allocations set using NHS data on hospital admissions movement options. for assault with a sharp object. • All forces intend to spend a small part of funding on new equipment including knife wands/arches, protective equipment, Taser, mobile CCTV etc. • The proposed activity is broken down in activity strands as set out below: 2 Data Projects • £1.3m National Data Quality Improvement Service (NDQIS) which aims to transform the way in which police classify and report knife (and gun) enabled crime data, working with 7 forces. Preparatory work being developed with these 7 forces and a cloud based system expected to be delivered by the end of the financial year for use by all 43 police forces. • £300k to complete the ingestion of Police National Computer (PNC) data into the HO Data Analytics Competency Centre (DACC). HO analysts are awaiting PNC data to develop this work further. Next Steps 3 • 18/07 – Forces to be notified of spending proposals agreement. • 26/07 - Grant agreements issued to forces and signed by 26/07. Primary success measures: • 02/08 – Forces to submit their funding requests and quarterly activity reports. • Reduction in hospital admissions for assaults with a • 09/08 – First payments made to forces by 09/08. knife or sharp object, especially among those victims aged under 25. • Reduction in knife-enabled serious violence, especially among those victims aged under 25. • Reduction in all non-domestic homicides, especially 1 Official - Sensitive among those victims aged under 25 involving knives.
Violence Reduction Units and Spending Review On 18 June, the Home Secretary announced the provisional allocation of the £35 million to the 18 police force areas worst affected by serious violence to develop Violence Reduction Units. These will bring together a range of agencies including health, education, social services and others, to develop a multi-agency approach in preventing serious violence altogether. 1 VRU Key Requirements Funding Allocations: • • Core purpose of VRUs is to provide leadership and strategic coordination of the local response to serious Allocations set using NHS data on hospital violence, delivered in accordance with ‘public health’ principles. admissions for assault with a sharp object, • with tiered allocations. Funding model provides sufficient flexibility for local areas to build on existing strengths and capabilities whether in respect of an existing VRU or appropriate multi-agency structures. • To ensure delivery of core purpose, minimum VRU membership must include the Chief Constable, the PCC, relevant local authority/ies, relevant Clinical Commissioning Groups, Public Health England/ Wales, the Youth Offending Team and representation of local educational institutions. • VRUs must deliver two mandatory products in the course of the funding period, which include a Problem Profile identifying the drivers of serious violence in the local area and a Response Strategy which describes the multi- agency response being delivered by the VRU. • Funding success measures drive focus on tackling serious violence in public places, though in recognition of the links between forms of violence, it’s open to VRUs to adopt a broader definition of serious violence. 2 Next Steps • w/c 17/07 – update to Ministers on nature of proposals and further information required from applicants; • 19/07 ongoing as necessary – requests for further information issued to PCCs; • w/c 22/07 – additional requested information received from PCCs; • w/c 29/07 – substantive advice to Ministers recommending confirmed awards; • ASAP thereafter in line with Ministerial approval – grant agreements issued. 3 Spending Review • Recognise the need for multi-year funding to effectively deliver VRUs and a sustained impact on tackling serious violence. However, we are unable to commit funding beyond 2019/20 due to the spending review. • Public health approach to tackling serious violence being prioritised through planning for Spending Review 2019. • Currently considering the establishment of VRUs nationwide as a platform for coordinating and delivering public health approach. Primary success measures are the same as • The Home Office is working through how serious violence sits within the wider spending review picture on surge. policing with other investment proposals such as precision policing/additional officers. 2 Official - Sensitive
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