Project Guardian NPCC 17 th July 2019
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| SUMMER VIOLENCE PREVENTION Intelligence COLLECTION -plans via schools, partners and enhanced by Guardian funds and central tactical intelligence. Youth Violence Surveys being used as an extension of “A conversation with every child”. DISSEMINATION – Now managed by central Guardian Intel function ACTION. Increased activity to inform any use of Sec 60, other tactical options and/or diversion. All single strand intelligence followed up by a disruption visit on Guardian OT. School FIB’s prioritized on Guardian OT. Place INTELLIGENCE -IPlans outlining violence hotspots, times and catalytic events. Responsive and agile intel function allows for deployment towards emergent risk TACTICS - Guardian funds made available to enhance tactical response. Knife arches, County Lines, Safer Travel Op Forecast moving into Guardian Control via Ground commander function Absorption of BW/BE P4 diary into FCID via Guardian funds allows for a more bespoke response in the highest risk locations. O be widened to whole force People ARREST - the offending cohort (even where the WM offence is not knife related) identified through FCID and Guardian Intel are targeted through NPU Guardian activity and “days of action” with strong links to investigation to improve outcomes. OM – Guardian visits conducted via LOMU to risk cohort, and referrals and diversion activity conducted SAFEGUARDING -Identification of troubled families so that sibling and child intervention can be considered at earliest opportunity.
| SUMMER VIOLENCE PREVENTION Partners SCHOOLS - knife inputs delivered towards close of term, with signposting delivered for summer diversion activities STATUTORY PARTNERS – Fire and Youth services assisting in summer diversionary activities THIRD SECTOR – Utilization of social responsibility funds from knife selling businesses Sports clubs and Safe Haven, Kicks, Positive, Youth Foundation, ACTIVE CITIZENS – Street Watch and volunteers used to support weapon sweeps, LEGITIMACY – Police support for BAME safe place events etc … Investigation GOLDEN HOUR – Guardian Car golden hour response to improve investigative outcomes for robbery and serious violence in Birmingham DISPOSALS - Alternative disposal work also ongoing. CASE PROGRESSION – Recruitment of bespoke case progression staff for Guardian offences. Diversion VRU – funds released for VRU, the senior police representative being the Diversion Lead for Guardian. SCHOOLS – various summer activities and diversion provision across the force, as listed in brief on previous slide. PEOPLE – Offenders, siblings, children identified and then supportively managed through OM, 3 rd sector and partners Media and Coms Guardian Coms Team co-ordinating the #lifeorknife campaign and publicizing Guardian activity
| POSITIVE INTERVENTION ACTIVITY There are currently three clusters in relation to knife enabled serious violence committed by under 25s, which are in Birmingham City Centre (BW), Coventry City Centre (CV) & Pennfields (WV). It is worthy of note that Robbery (see next slide) is one of the primary drivers of knife enabled serious violence. Knife related violence for the relevant age cohort has fallen back to, or below the process average, and routinely below the levels seen in early 2018. Birmingham accounts for more than half of the total offences in the force 14/26 in the last recorded period, and Birmingham has begun to stabilise, impacting the entirety of force performance. This stabilisation is against seasonally expected decreases. Continued activity is required into Darker Nights which sees seasonal increases.
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| VIOLENCE PREVENTION ALLIANCE Existing Work within the VPA WMP has an existing Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), established in • Primary Prevention in Education: Lead programme 2015 which creates a solid foundation for a Violence Reduction Unit – Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) : Schools (VRU).The West Midlands has been allocated £3.7 million from HO to based peer mentoring, active bystander create a VRU. programme to empower students as positive leaders in their environments. Currently working in Our strategy has six critical strands within the proposed framework which 45 schools across the West Midlands define success: • Primary Prevention - Core Support of intelligence • Strong Foundations (local and regional partnerships focussed on & evidence: Injury Surveillance System: Primary Prevention - ACE Coordinators – launched prevention, the populations with most to gain, and the contribution each partner can make. January 2019 as a pilot in Sandwell and Dudley. • Primary Prevention (stop violence before it starts; tackle root • Tertiary Prevention in Secondary Care: Lead causes, including inclusion, diversity and community cohesion) – Programme Redthread/ST Giles Trust: • Secondary Prevention (stop the progression of violence - early Provision of youth workers in A&E departments to detection and intervention; managing risk factors) work with patients under 25 affected by violence, • Tertiary Prevention (rehabilitate – support for victims and providing initial intervention & support into a local perpetrators; use of ‘teachable moments’; alternatives to youth service. criminalisation) • Tertiary Prevention in Primary Care: Lead • Enforcement & Criminal Justice (prevent further violence for those programme - IRIS (Identification and Referral to in the CJ system) Improve Safety): An initiative training GP practice • Attitudinal Change (use communications to help change social staff to identify patients effected by DA norms)
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| ISSUES FROM FORCES - TIMESCALES 12 months is not a Where’s the second years This is a generational strategic timeframe; funding? When will it be problem, we need a you can’t plan confirmed? And the 7 forces to generational solution meaningfully in that 18 forces attempt to cut up an little time already meagre pie is a problem. TIMESCALES You can’t recruit officers with The funding deadlines 12 months funding, who pays make it impossible to for them when it runs out? spend this properly. We’ve got 11 months basically This funding, while welcome, and we need some over- is just a knee- jerk and doesn’t spill into next year provide the longevity we need.
| ISSUES FROM FORCES - ALIENATION My partners are alienated by The “re - wording” of Section 60 this too, we’ve got money to doesn’t help. A tactical “solve” a problem that they’re response in isolation from a better placed to respond to, yet strong diversionary they’ve not even been architecture is pointless. consulted, let alone paid. ALIENATION These kids are alienated Upping stop and search after years from society and the police, of reducing it is causing issues. It’s more “robust” policing not a deterrent, so much as it’s a won’t cure what’s ailing. novel experience for a whole They need aspiration, social generation of young people and it’s mobility and better health making them angry. They’re the next and mental health care generation of voters.
| ISSUES FROM FORCES - PARTNERSHIP This is all driven by poverty and This is a generational My partners are alienated by inequality, but the police can’t problem, we need a this too, we’ve got money to address that, it’s the generational solution “solve” a problem that they’re government’s job to fund the better placed to respond to, systems into which we would yet they’ve not even been divert, if we could consulted, let alone paid. The “re - wording” PARTNERSHIP of Section 60 doesn’t help. A This is operational surge tactical response in related, yet the OPCC pushes isolation from a much of it towards diversion, strong diversionary You can’t arrest your way out We know what works. reducing our efficacy in architecture is of this, yellow jackets are not Glasgow, Chicago, delivering against the short pointless. the answer. We need to whoever you use as the term metrics provided. invest in youth services and example, a long term co- create legitimate routes for coordinated approach is young people to aspire to necessary
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