Transcript Domestic violence forum Policy Update

Domestic violence forum
Policy Update
Marcus Roberts
LONDON
‘POLICE AND CRIME
COMMISSIONER’
MOPC has identified four policing
priorities for London:
- Strengthening response to serious
youth violence including knife crime
- Ensuring that there is enough
frontline policing
- Robbery, burglary and drug dealing in
every borough
- Gangs and the rate of re-offending
The Community Safety Fund and
Home Office DIP will be transferred to
PCC in April 2013
• The MOPC is required to issue a police and
crime plan as soon as practicable after the
Mayoral elections in May 2012 (and within
that financial year).
• The views of victims of crime on proposed
police and crime plans must be sought before
those plans are finalised.
Safer Future Communities www.clinks.org/services/sfc
Home Office PCC site –
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/police/police-crimecommissioners/
GLA website –
www.london.gov.uk/priorities/policing-andcrime/about-mopc
Sobriety Orders
• The judges opt to use compulsory sobriety as a sentencing
option instead of choosing to incarcerate offenders
• The convicted individual is required to check into a designated
venue twice daily to be breathalysed for alcohol consumption
If the terms of the sentence are breached, the individual is
arrested, put into a police cell overnight and presented to the
judge the following day.
• The judge has the discretion to decide what happens to the
offender, for example to incarcerate them, put them back on
community sentence etc.
• Individuals pay for their testing
• The Mayor has tabled an amendment to the Police Reform and
Social Responsibility Bill for changes in the current law to
enable the courts to make this order.
London Health Improvement Board
(LHIB)
Priorities identified as:
• Alcohol abuse
• Childhood obesity
• Prevention and early
diagnosis of cancers.
(Estimated £14-15 million
in 2013-14)
More information at
www.lhib.org.uk
Public Health Reforms
Outcomes include
• Successful completion of
drug treatment
• Alcohol-related admissions to
hospital
• People entering prison with
substance dependence issues
who are previously not
known to community
treatment
• Domestic abuse (placeholder)
• Violent crime – including
sexual violence (placeholder)
Other things to note
• JSNA and JHWS consultation
• Welfare Reform Bill is expected to become law
by the end of this month.
• DWP social justice strategy – focus on making
‘a real difference’ to those with multiple
disadvantage by end of parliament (2015)
DrugScope website – www.drugscope.org.uk
(sign up for DS Daily)
LDAN website – www.ldan.org.uk
Contact
Marcus Roberts – [email protected]
Sue Christoforou – [email protected]