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Making the links
Dr Marcus Roberts
Director of Policy and Membership,
DrugScope
MAKING THE LINKS:
POLICING AND CRIME PREVENTION
‘The clue is in the name. These will be Police AND
CRIME Commissioners … now is the time for local
authorities and the voluntary, private and public
sectors to begin considering how they can play their
part as a critical partner to the PCC in cutting crime’
Nick Herbert, then Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice,
2011
MAKING THE LINKS:
DRUGS AND ALCOHOL
The urban area of Norwich has a population of 194,839.
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Violence costs NHS
£2.9 billion a year
 Around half of violent
offences are thought
to be alcohol related
(44% in 2010-11)
 In around a fifth of
violent crimes, the
victims perceive the
perpetrator as having
been under the
influence of drugs
"Women experiencing domestic violence are up to
fifteen times more likely to misuse alcohol and nine
times more likely to misuse other drugs than women
generally“ WOMEN’S AID
MAKING THE LINKS:
A PERIOD OF RADICAL CHANGE
PCCs PLUS ….
Localism
 NHS reform
 Health and Wellbeing Boards
 Public Health
 Offender Health (NHS Commissioning Board)
 Work programme
 Transforming Rehabilitation
 Payment by results ….
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A complex picture
DsPH and HWB in upper tier and unitary
local authorities
 15 local Public Health England Centres
 27 local offender health teams
 41 (and London) Police and Crime
Commissioners
 Plus work programme, Transforming
rehabilitation, Troubled Families
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IMF Public spending projections
Community safety funding
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Fall in community safety funding from 201011 to 2012-13 – 60% (Incorporation of DIP
money from 2013-14)
Allocation of CSF for 2013-14 is £90m for
2013-14 (reduced from £123m in 2012-13)
CSF for Norfolk is £700,000
MAKING THE LINKS:
VCSE and PCCs
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We have the right
relationships
 We know what works
 We provide value for
money
 We have strong
community links
 We involve local people
in change
 We represent people
outside the mainstream
 We understand what
works with victims as
well as offenders
A (really big) example of effective
partnership work
DIP results
Home Office figures for 2010-11 show that DIP:
 helped manage over 62,000 offenders into drug
treatment;
 Led to 8,530 restrictions on bail requiring drug users
to attend treatment;
 Led to 667 DIP conditional cautions diverting people
from the criminal justice system and into treatment;
and
 ensured that 9,647 short sentence prisoners were
picked up on release and managed into treatment.
Contact Details
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 020 7520 7556
Website: www.drugscope.org.uk