Issue - meetings

To receive a presentation by the Partnership Police Inspector on the work undertaken with regard to integrated offender management.

Consideration was given to a presentation by Inspector J Taylor on a strategic overview of Integrated Offender Management (Navigate) which involved:

·         All partners tackling offenders together

·         Delivering a local response to local problems

·         Offenders facing their responsibility or facing the consequences

·         Making better use of existing programmes and governance

·         All offenders at high risk of causing serious harm and/or re-offending in scope.

The aim of Navigate was to identify and target prolific offenders to reduce reoffending which could be achieved by active management of statutory and non-statutory cases and individual sentence plans for each person. There could be up to 100 people on the scheme at any one time.

The reason for implementing Navigate was to break the cycle of repeat offending as 50% of all crime was committed by people who had been through the criminal justice process and 50% of all convicted offenders re-offended within 12 months of release.

The main reason for criminal activity related to substance misuse which resulted in a breakdown of lifestyle. Therefore if substance misuse was tackled, the associated antisocial behaviour would follow.

NACRO (National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders) provided support staff to work alongside the team to carry out intensive support, such as drug testing, for offenders.

The Navigate programme worked by providing:

·         An intensive package of support and monitoring

·         A number of arranged appointments each week

·         Drug testing

·         12 month registration period

·         Management as a statutory or non statutory case

·         A review each month at the JAG meeting

·         A joined up approach with Probation/Drug Support/Housing/Police

It was acknowledged that accommodation provided stability for people, however it would not ordinarily be available for offenders as there was a shortage of single occupancy accommodation and the Registered Social Landlords may not be willing to accept offenders.

Under the Navigate scheme, people were managed in one of three ways; a traffic light system was used to distinguish the level of compliance and progress. Once an offender had reached red, all interaction from other agencies would stop, however there was success in 1/3^rd of cases, either through a reduction in the levels of offending or the type of offending.

RESOLVED

That the Inspector be thanked for his presentation.