Protect and Support: The Policing Challenge

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Protect and Support The Policing Challenge

• Inspector Lyn Ross
• Grampian Police
• Aberdeen Whole System Approach

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Challenges

• Three times more likely to be charged with
  offences (2003 2006)
• 22 of the persistent offender group were
  resident at a Childrens Home or Residential Unit
  (2005/06)
• Approximately 50 of all people in prison were
  previously known to care services
• Prisoners are 13 times more likely to have been
  in care as a child

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Lancashire runaway children costing police and
taxpayers 5m

• POLICE are called an average of 425 times a
  month to childrens homes in Lancashire because
  youngsters have gone missing.
• Youth magistrates have questioned the zero
  tolerance approach being taken by some private
  care homes.
• ..youngster was referred to court for breaking a
  cup. (Jan 2012)

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Why do Police need to get involved?

• Scottish Crime Recording Standards
• Protecting Communities
• Protecting Staff
• Protecting Children
• Children and Young People Running Away
• Protecting Children
• Protecting Communities

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Providing Support Protocols In Partnership

• Young People Missing from Residential
  Establishments
• Return Home Welfare Interviews / Young Runaways
  Service
• Detention of Children in Police Stations
• Child Protection Guidelines

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Whole System Approach

• An approach that delivers the right support, to
  the right young person, at the right time
  (appropriate, proportionate and timely)
• A way to ensure that services are responsive to
  the needs of all young people, whatever the risk,
  offending type or system they are in
• A consistent approach across the 8 18 age
  group.

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Experience the Whole System Approach

CHILDRENS HOMES
Improved information sharing through early
intervention
Challenging young people remaining in the
community
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Solutions

• Local Policing Teams
• Regular communication
• Wider partnership approach
• Joint training
• Joint problem solving

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• Lyn.ross_at_grampian.pnn.police.uk