Crime & Disorder & Drugs Audit 2004 - Prolific & Priority Offenders

Mervyn Middleton, Community Safety Partnership Co-Ordinator

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Broadland Crime and Disorderand Drugs Audit 2004Prolific & Priority Offendersxxxxxxx 1. Offenders living in Broadland1.1 Prolific and Priority Offender StrategyThe Prolific and Priority Offender (PPO) Strategy comprises three complementary strands:Catch and Convict, Rehabilitate and Resettle, and Prevent and Deter: ict - actively tackling those who are already prolific offenders. Rehabilitate and Resettle – working with identified prolific offenders to stop theiroffending by offering a range of supportive interventions. Offenders will be offered theopportunity for rehabilitation or face a very swift return to the courts. Prevent and Deter – to stop people (overwhelmingly young people) engaging inoffending behaviours and graduating into prolific offenders.Together these will combine to form a comprehensive, locally delivered programme toreduce the number of prolific and other priority offenders, who offend most or otherwisecause most harm to their communities.CDRPs have lead responsibility for delivering all three strands of the strategy, inconjunction with Local Criminal Justice Boards who have responsibility for setting theoverall framework for the area. The emphasis will be on a multi-agency approach towards tackling the problem. Police,Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Prisons and Probation will work together with the LocalCriminal Justice Board (LCJB) to effectively catch, convict, monitor and manage a keytarget group of offenders in the ...

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Broadland Crime and Disorder
and Drugs Audit 2004
Prolific & Priority Offenders 1. Offenders living in Broadland
1.1 Prolific and Priority Offender Strategy
The Prolific and Priority Offender (PPO) Strategy comprises three complementary strands:
Catch and Convict, Rehabilitate and Resettle, and Prevent and Deter: ict - actively tackling those who are already prolific offenders.
Rehabilitate and Resettle – working with identified prolific offenders to stop their
offending by offering a range of supportive interventions. Offenders will be offered the
opportunity for rehabilitation or face a very swift return to the courts.
Prevent and Deter – to stop people (overwhelmingly young people) engaging in
offending behaviours and graduating into prolific offenders.
Together these will combine to form a comprehensive, locally delivered programme to
reduce the number of prolific and other priority offenders, who offend most or otherwise
cause most harm to their communities.
CDRPs have lead responsibility for delivering all three strands of the strategy, in
conjunction with Local Criminal Justice Boards who have responsibility for setting the
overall framework for the area.
The emphasis will be on a multi-agency approach towards tackling the problem. Police,
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Prisons and Probation will work together with the Local
Criminal Justice Board (LCJB) to effectively catch, convict, monitor and manage a key
target group of offenders in the community or custody and work towards rehabilitating
them.
The implementation of the Catch and Convict and the Rehabilitate and Resettle strand
was started in September 2004. Prevent and Deter will be implemented from February
2005.
Further work will be required over the coming year to ensure that some of the details are
worked through all the strands and that, in particular, a more comprehensive range of
community organisations are brought together to ensure the delivery of the Prevent and
Deter and the Rehabilitate and Re-settle Strands.
The aims of the schemes are to:
Enhance arrest, investigation, detection, charging and prosecution of offenders,
bringing to justice as much of the criminality committed by the targeted PPOs as
possible;
Reduce re-offending of PPOs, and consequently reduce the number of victims of
crime;
Develop a rapid and effective partnership intervention which enables effective
supervision and monitoring of PPOs;
Address non-compliance/ re-offending speedily and effectively.
CDRP Analyst, Eastern, April 2005 2
xxxxxxxIn focusing activities on the ‘major prolific offenders’ responsible for a disproportionate
amount of crime across Norfolk, PPOs will deliver:
More efficient use of partnership resources to enhance the delivery of justice.
A greater impact on crime reduction and the delivery of Community Safety and Public
Service Agreement (PSA) targets.
An improvement in public confidence in the Criminal Justice Service (CJS) and a
reduction in the fear of crime.
In line with the aim of impacting upon both local priorities and PSA targets the PPO
strategy will contribute to reductions in:
Vehicle crime.
Domestic burglary.
Violent Crime (including domestic violence).
Drug related crime.
Anti-social behaviour and criminal damage.
It will further complement delivery of targets to:
Improve the level of confidence of the public in the Criminal Justice System.
Protect the public.
Improve the delivery of justice by increasing the number of crimes for which an
offender is brought to justice.
Each of the schemes that have been developed has been based upon the geographical
boundaries of Police Basic Command Units (BCU) to optimise the use of resources i.e.:
Western BCU (Kings Lynn, West Norfolk and Breckland)
Eastern (Broadland, Great Yarmouth and North Norfolk)
Central (Norwich, Broadland and South Norfolk).
Use of this geographical base will enable an effective strategic approach to join the three
strands of the strategy and reduce the potential for duplication and poor communication.
Broadland CDRP covers two BCU areas and has agreed to participate in the two area
schemes of Eastern and Central.
All stakeholders in the CDRP are responsible for ensuring that all strands of the strategy
are delivered in accordance with local and national policies and procedures in relation to
diversity promotion and management. They are also responsible for overseeing and where
appropriate developing all necessary monitoring and reporting processes to ensure
compliance with equalities and related legislation.
The three BCU Schemes will work in liaison to ensure that there are protocols in place with
respect to these other schemes currently in existence:
The Multi Agency Public Protection Panel Arrangements (MAPPA).
Anti-Social Behaviour schemes.
CDRP Analyst, Eastern, April 2005 3
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxYouth Inclusion Support Programmes (YISPs) – multi-agency planning groups that
seek to prevent offending and anti-social behaviour by offering voluntary support
services to 8-13 year olds who are at high risk of becoming involved in such activity
and their families.
Drug & Alcohol Reference Group (DARG).
Drug Intervention Programme (DIP).
The Norwich (only) CDRP (Probation/ Police) Persistent Offender Project.
Each scheme recognises the importance of engaging with key partners at a senior level
and has developed and agreed monitoring and information sharing protocols with:
All the CDRPs / RAPs/ RAGs – in respect of providing additional resources and
providing overall authority for the PPO Scheme.
Norfolk Constabulary– with respect to overseeing the identification, tasking and co-
ordination of the scheme.
Norfolk Probation Area – with respect to intensive supervision and case management.
The Norfolk Drugs and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) – with respect to priority
interventions, service developments (e.g. Drug Intervention Programme (DIP)) and
liaison with Treatment Providers.
Health – with respect to drugs, alcohol, the psychiatric services and primary care.
Employment and Training - with respect to Jobcentre Plus and the Norfolk Learning
and Skills Council.
Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) and Youth Offending Institution (YOI) Norwich and HMP
Wayland – with respect to tracking PPOs, accessing rehabilitation programmes and
planning for release.
The County and District Councils – with respect to a range of services (including
housing, education, social services).
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) – with respect to the delivery of a Criminal
Justice Service Premium Service.
Norfolk Youth Offending Team – with respect to young people.
1.1.1 Catch and Convict
In the first phase of the development of PPO Schemes Norfolk Constabulary took
responsibility for identifying the target Catch and Convict PPOs using the following matrix.
Through the operation of the National Intelligence Model (NIM) using current
information on their offending behaviour
Looking at the offences that they have been responsible for over the past two years.
Looking at previous history of offending behaviour for those individuals that were at
present in prison.
The numbers of target PPOs are as follows for each BCU scheme:
Eastern Scheme has identified a total of 25 PPOs: 19 for Great Yarmouth, 5 for North
Norfolk, 1 for Broadland.
Western Scheme has identified a total of 34: 19 for Breckland, 15 for Kings Lynn.
CDRP Analyst, Eastern, April 2005 4
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxCentral Scheme has identified a total of 63 PPOs: 43 for Norwich, 13 for South Norfolk,
7 for Broadland. Central has identified 2 that are aged 17: it is anticipated that these
young people will move between the catch and convict and prevent and deter strands.
1.1.2 Rehabilitate and Resettle
The main agencies involved in rehabilitating PPOs are probation, prisons, police and DIP
providers, drawing upon other partner agencies to provide services under the intervention
pathways set out in the National Reducing Re-offending Action Plan. In many areas, these
agencies already work closely together. The Rehabilitate and Resettle strand is consistent
with existing best practice in this area, namely:
The National Offender Management Service approach to managing offenders
through a single offender manager having ‘case management’ responsibility for an
offender at all stages through their sentence.
‘Resources following risk’. PPOs will have been identified because of their
disproportionate offending or the impact they have on their communities, with the
resources allocated to them reflecting this.
OASYS or ASSET assessments – All PPOs aged 18 and over and sentenced to
community or custodial sentences of a year or more will have an OASYS assessment
to identity their likelihood of re-offending, their risk of serious harm, the needs related to
their offending, and the interventions required to rehabilitate and resettle them. The
Offender Assessment System is a standardised process for the assessment of
offenders that has been developed jointly by the National Probation Service and the
Prison Service. An equivalent process, ASSET, exists for offenders under 18.
The National Reducing Re-offending Action Plan which sets out the framework
under which the pathways should be developed both regionally and locally.
1.1.3 Prevent and Deter
Norfolk Youth