YCAP Youth Taskforce Roadshow DAC Commander Jarman

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YCAP Youth Taskforce RoadshowDAC Commander Jarman
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Policing Pledge- Our Promise to the Public

• The MPS takes pride in providing the best
  possible service to people in London and the
  pledge sets out the standards of service that can
  be expected
• Young People are actively encouraged to
  participate in making their communities safer.
  This is achieved by
• Encouraging them to e mail / text issues to their
  local team
• Ensure that at local meetings young people are
  encouraged to attend
• Safer Transport Teams to patrol transport hubs to
  tackle anti-social behaviour and disorder at
  school closing times.
• This will reassure young people and local
  communities in these areas

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Youth Taskforce Action Plan,

• This sets out a strong package of actions to do
  more to tackle the root causes of bad behaviour.
  It describes a triple track approach
• Tough Enforcement- To tackle problems
• Non- negotiable support- To tackle the causes of
  problems
• Early Intervention and Prevention- To identify
  those on the cusp of offending /anti-social
  behaviour
• The triple track will ensure that young people
  who are involved in or at risk of anti social
  behaviour or offending are identified
  systematically and support is offered alongside
  the use of such tools as parenting orders and
  Family Intervention Projects

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Roll Out of Restorative approaches by police

• Youth Restorative Disposal (YRD) to be piloted in
  Hillingdon
• Offers operational officers more discretion with
  a quick and effective alternative way of dealing
  with low level and anti- social offending
• A swift, simple, speedier approach that carries
  the support of the victim and complainants
• Reduction in the amount of time officers spend
  completeing paperwork
• To prevent young people from offending, including
  reducing the number of FTEs in the CJS

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Sanction Detections- Impact of Triage

• There were some concerns about the negative
  impact on sanction detection performance that the
  process would have. The performance is set out
  below for reassurance.
• Lewisham had a sanction detection rate of 24.02
  for April 07 to March 08 and of this 11.93 of
  the Sanctioned detections were youth SDs. Youth
  Sanctioned Detections stood at 2.87 for all.  
• For the April 07 March 08 period the Sanction
  detection rate was increased to 26.63 and the
  percentage of SDs that were youth SDs decreased
  to 8.31 a fall 3.62. However the Youth
  Sanction detection rate fell from 2.87 to 2.21
  (-0.66)
• In summary the Boroughs overall performance rose
  while the proportion of youth SDs fell. Greenwich
  has similar results  

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Power of Safer Schools Partnerships

• Benefits of a robust partnership
• With key individual agencies are able to
  contribute and deliver specialist services and
  interventions for young people
• Ensures that young people are identified at an
  early stage
• This in turn will impact on the number of
  exclusions, reduce truancy and increase
  attainment
• SSP are in a unique position to
• Build relationships and increase confidence
  amongst young people,their families and carers
• Develop relationships between school staff and
  local communities to benefit from the Extended
  Schools Programme

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Stay Safe - Overview

• Based on a partnership between police and local
  authority
• Use Police intelligence to sweep ASB hotspot
  areas late at night
• Remove children and Young People from the streets
  if they are at risk of significant harm
• Take them to a designated safe place where a
  multi agency team risk assess
• Return children and young people to
  parents/guardians when possible
• Offer and pursue multi agency support when
  necessary

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Operation StaySafe

• MPS Perspective is on 3 levels
• Targeted individual Intervention and support
  which is aimed at young people in gangs or on the
  edge of gangs
• Geographically targeted intervention and support
  to engage youths in identified problematic areas
  or where a section 60 is in force
• Truancy Patrols

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Triage Piloted in Lewisham and Greenwich

• Triage brings YOT expertise in police custody
  suites
• It enables all young people entering the custody
  suite to be rapidly assessed with their risk and
  needs identified and responded to
• Triage improves information sharing between YOTs
  Police and CPS
• Why Triage
• Reduce number of First Time Entrants (FTEs)
• Reduce number of low level low risk cases going
  through the court
• Improve the speed and quality of responses to
  more serious youth cases at the point of charge

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Reparation Schemes During Leisure Times

• What does this mean for Practitioners
• Agencies working together to increase community
  engagement in the response to youth offending
• Greater emphasis on reparative work with young
  offenders which makes a real difference to local
  people
• Enhanced relationships between criminal justice
  agencies working with young people
• Greater flexibility to tailor interventions to
  respond to the risks and to the need of young
  offenders

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Operation Blunt - Prevention

• Intelligence led operations
• Boroughs include a risk assessment process in
  their local strategies
• Use experience and good practice
• Gain benefit of partnership interventions
• Increase emphasis on violence and weapons
• Adjust risk assessment to take into account
  gang/group offending

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Youth Engagement

• Universal Kickz, Met Track, VPC, Project You
• Targeted - Voyage, Outreach, Trident, SCD1
• Specialist Mentoring, Pathways