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Persistent Offender Project

Working Together – Building Safer Communities. Persistent Offender Project. Joint Partnership between Glasgow Addiction Service & Strathclyde Police Funded by Glasgow Community Planning Partnership. Persistent Offender Project (POP). Centenary House, Glasgow

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Persistent Offender Project

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  1. Working Together – Building Safer Communities Persistent Offender Project Joint Partnership between Glasgow Addiction Service & Strathclyde Police Funded by Glasgow Community Planning Partnership

  2. Persistent Offender Project (POP) • Centenary House, Glasgow • 1 x Police Sergeant 1 X Police Officer • 1 x Senior Addiction Worker 3 x Addiction Workers • 1 x Admin Support

  3. Aim of the Project To Target:- • Adults(16+ Male/Female) • Who persistently commit acquisitive crimes and prostitution offences in Glasgow to finance their drug / alcohol or substance dependency; • Who reside in ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘G’ divisions of Glasgow

  4. Key Objectives • Reduce drug/alcohol offending • Reduce anti-social behaviour • Reduce drug related deaths • Reduce the fear of crime • Promote community safety and well being • Promote training and employment opportunities and encourage offenders to become involved in work initiatives.

  5. Drugs & the Criminal Justice System • Economic & Social cost of drug motivated crime are considerable • Total cost of such crime estimated at £19billion (strategy Unit, UK Govt) • Drug users commit 56% of total number of crimes recorded in UK each year

  6. Drugs & the Criminal Justice System • Proportion is higher for certain crime types • Shoplifting 85% • Domestic Housebreaking 80% Commercial Housebreaking 71% • 84% of the cost of drug motivated crime is committed by users of heroin or crack cocaine

  7. Drugs & the Criminal Justice System • Out of this 84% - 10% account for more than half of crime committed • It is within this target group the POP is looking to identify and engage. • (Gossop et al) identified significant reductions in the amount of crime committed following effective treatment

  8. Identification of Target Group • Initially identified through police systems • Referrals from partner agencies • Self referral • Cross referred with information on Social Work CareFirst • Discussion between partner agencies

  9. Treatment delivery • Partnership working • Joint protocol (Community Addiction Teams/CJ Teams / SPS/ Drug Court) • Information sharing • Pro-active outreach • Monitoring of offending and substance misuse • Young People involved in treatment • Harm reduction • Link people in to “wraparound” services • Women involved in Prostitution – Base 75 and Routes Out Intervention Team plus 218

  10. POP Process • Individual approached in various settings Court, Prison home visits etc • Consent form signed • Assessment, identified needs and priority link in to treatment • Access to wide range of services offered by GAS • Pro-actively outreach to engage individual within treatment

  11. POP Process • Information sharing with partner agency's • Tracking individuals criminal activity, and providing appropriate support • Stabilisation of one individual can have a significant effect on Local Communities and Local Police Divisions. • Current Drug Trends relating to harm reduction.

  12. Outcomes / Benefits • Reduction in crime and fear of crime • Reduction in drug deaths • Improved community safety and well being • Increased numbers sustained in treatment services • Improved partnership working • Links to Training & Employment • Integration back in to local community

  13. Progress to date • 100 Individuals engaged per annum. • Reduction in acquisitive crime (28%) leading to a safer City • Service users engaged in treatment and care and maintaining that position – many for the first time in their lives • Reduction in homelessness • Reduction in women involved in prostitution

  14. Future • The development of a service user questionnaire and possible peer support group. • joint working with the Structured Deferred Sentence team and referral pathways identified • Work in progress by Scottish Government Economist – Financial impact on Communities • Development of closer integration with CHCP • Clear identified links to employment and Training • Ever changing innovative practice to engage this difficult to reach service user group.

  15. Case Study Service user A was highlighted by the Street Liaison Team and Base 75, the concerns where as follows: • deterioration in both her physical and mental health • Homelessness, rough sleeping • Chaotic IV drug use • Lack of contact/engagement with services • Her involvement in Street prostitution • staying with males that were sexually exploiting her • Being bullied by other women by having her clothes and money taken from her

  16. Case Study • POP quick to locate her in custody • Prioritised for treatment • Extensive outreach, assessment & Care Planning • Family Support • Support with Housing • Successful exit from Prostitution • Linked to training, now attending College

  17. POP ANY QUESTIONS? Centenary House 100 Morrison St Glasgow G5 8LN Tel: 0141 276 7456 gpop@sw.glasgow.gov.uk www.glasgow.gov.uk www.strathclyde.police.uk

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