Engaging People, Protecting Communities:

1. Engaging People, Protecting Communities: DCI Mabs Hussain (West Yorkshire Police) HMP Governor Andy Johnson (Prison Service Strategic Lead)

2. Why work together: criminal justice & health Crime has both direct and indirect effects on health: • Direct – through violence, injury, rape • Indirect – psychological consequences of injury, victimisation and isolation • As a determinant of illness • Reduce effectiveness of health systems – violence against staff • By preventable health burdens – alcohol related crime, drug dependency and motor vehicle accidents.

3. Why work together: criminal justice & health • Strong correlation between poor health, high levels of crime and poverty. • Estimated that 15% of incidents dealt with by the police on a daily basis are mental health related. • Estimated that the NHS spends over £1 billion on treating the victims of crime each year.

4. Why work together: the police as a public health placement • Build partnerships – police, NHS, LA, VCS; • Bring a public health perspective and approach; • Bring public health skills; • Develop skills across the Public Health Curriculum; • Improve health and reduce health inequalities; • Tackle the wider determinants of health; • Reduce crime and reoffending

5. How have we been working together? • Learning disabilities prevalence study • Section 136 – Mental Health Act • Custody health needs assessment • Appropriate adults • Missing persons with mental health problems

6. West Yorkshire prison IOM hub • 2009 vision of Chief Constable and Director of Offender Management • Closer to home • Intelligence informs resettlement • Seconded Prison Governor

7. Cultural Change Turning the Tanker !! Prison and police partnership.

8. Gene Hunt Goes to Prison

9. Why a prison hub? • Create a communication portal • Close the communication gap – Nominal disappearing act !! • Prioritisation of most prolific • Co-ordination of support services • Manage golden 24 hour period “Hands on”

10. Who’s in the Prison Hub. • A Prison officer-linked in to offender management and security • IOM Police officers-linked into community IOM teams • Probation officers-managing under 12 month offenders • VCS-Housing experts • Police intelligence researchers

11. How does it work - A New Vision • Significant nominals of concern are tracked through custody – Prison IT system • Intelligence and information relating to significant nominals is shared on admission and release. • Release plans for all nominals of concern including intelligence packs. • Bespoke intelligence packages include significant information on an offenders associates, Security information etc. • Enhanced Intelligence inform Offender Management/Security in custody.

12. Recent Developments • A multi agency hub at HMP Wealstun focusing on longer term nominals of concern. • A West Yorkshire hub – Building on the HMP Leeds model. Linking, sharing information and forging relationships with any prison which houses PPO/IOM nominals who will return to West Yorkshire on release.

13. New Territory and Innovation • Prisons and Police in partnership – PbR. • Identification of aspiring nominals in custody. • Hubs at HMP New Hall and YOI Wetherby to close the communication gap in the juvenile and female prison estate. • A prison hub in each force in the region, linking the prison and police region. • Satellite tracking of nominals of concern.

14. West Yorkshire: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way • Don’t underestimate the cultural differences. • Don’t underestimate the pace of change !

15. Any Questions?