COMMUNITY DRUGS INTELLIGENCE AND THE DRUG INTERVENTION PROGRAMME AN AGENDA FOR CHANGE

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COMMUNITY DRUGS INTELLIGENCE AND THE DRUG
INTERVENTION PROGRAMMEAN AGENDA FOR CHANGE

• DAVID CROMPTON
• ASSISTANT CHIEF CONSTABLE
• WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE

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• INTRODUCTION
• The fundamental aim of the Drug Intervention
  Programme (DIP) is Sustainable
  Crime Reduction
• Rebalancing the Criminal Justice System in favour
  of the law-abiding majority (July 2006).

• Grip the more problematic offenders (HCCUs)
• Key plank in a refreshed crime reduction
  strategy
• Ensure the real priority offenders are being
  targeted
• Tighten the grip by getting the right
  interaction between
• DIP and PPO

• National Community Safety Plan 07/08 Reduce
  overall crime by 15 in more high crime areas
  including a more focussed approach to drug
  related crime

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• THE CURRENT INTELLIGENCE PICTURE
• Drug testing on arrest trigger offences result
  in offenders being interviewed by arrest referral
  workers and a Drug Intervention Record (DIR)
  being created
• This form contains the details of the offenders
  drug use, preferred type of drug, drug spend
• Police have no access to the DIR information
• Police use NIM to target offenders but we miss
  out on vital DIR information
• We need to know about high spend individuals
  otherwise they cannot be effectively targeted

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Overview
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Big Spenders
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NUMBERS ALREADY IN TREATMENT
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Number Previously in Treatment
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VIDEO THE FEEDING FRENZY AUGUST 2006 LEEDS
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• WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM THE FEEDING FRENZY
• We arrested the dealers
• We traced all the users
• 95 of the users were in some form of treatment
  but half of them were not known to police
• How much crime were these people committing to
  fund their habit?
• A significant number were on a DRR but had never
  been breached despite frequently testing positive
  for Class A drugs
• We realised we were not targeting the right
  people
• Formal link between PPO and DIP

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Core Business

• Develop concept of joint Offender Managers
• Reconsider focus on offence management
• NPT part of tactical enforcement arm
• Develop proactive Enforcement Plans
• Improve links with Converter HCCU

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Daily Intelligence
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Daily Nominals of Interest
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• THE FUTURE
• In the next 5 years we will be faced with
  policing an open prison in the community
• To keep a grip on crime and reassure the
  community we need the full intelligence picture
• Develop the intelligence to improve offender
  management
• Harmonise performance indicators between agencies
• A reality check

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What does Volume Crime look like?
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Out of Crime and into Treatment? (This is where
we started out)
Still committing crime and still in
treatment (Where we are now)
Where do we want to be in the future?