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Safeguarding London’s Children Conference

Safeguarding London’s Children Conference. Domestic Violence in BME Communities DI Glen LLOYD Violent Crime Directorate Metropolitan Police Service. Domestic Violence.

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Safeguarding London’s Children Conference

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  1. Safeguarding London’s Children Conference Domestic Violence in BME Communities DI Glen LLOYD Violent Crime Directorate Metropolitan Police Service

  2. Domestic Violence “…one of the most pernicious denials of human rights because it is perpetrated not by strangers but by family members, people in positions of trust ”. Sir John Stevens Former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police

  3. Prevalence • 101,000+ reported incidents of domestic violence. • 1 in 3 common assaults • 1 in 4 Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) • 1 in 8 Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) • 10% of all homicide in London • 20% of all violent crime in London • 75% of all children on the Social Services‘at risk’ register

  4. Honour Based Violence definition ‘So-called honour based violence’ is a crime or incident, which has or may have been committed to protect or defend the honour of the family and/or community. Metropolitan Police March 2007

  5. Origins

  6. Graph 3 - Victim Age Victims between the ages of 16 and 20 reported the highest number of Forced Marriage incidents - most at risk. 1 in 4 victims are Under 18 – Child protection issues

  7. The development of the Public Protection Command Assists the effective management of: • Dangerous People • Dangerous Places, and • Vulnerable Victims – adults and children

  8. Strategic Drivers • HMIC Areas for Improvement (AFIs) • High Profile/well publicised homicides & other Critical • Incidents • Legislative Changes e.g. Children Act 2004 (ECM) • Organisational Drivers e.g. Management Board, • Strategic partners (MPA et al), Serious Violence Strategy etc.

  9. The key aims of the future model are: ·Rationalise and improve communication routes and intelligence flows between PP units & stakeholders. ·Facilitate improvement & formalisation of cross team intelligence and info sharing. • Reduce potential for intelligence to get “lost” • Increase cross-crime type offender identification • Facilitate joined-up reactive/proactive response

  10. Aims cont’d ….. • Increase the size of taskable resources to public protection offences • Raised profile of PP unit, will promote greater intelligence support from BIUs & MIB • Increased flexibility of resource deployment to meet changing priorities • Increased opportunity for proactive response by BOCU resources • Scaleable structure to support possible future growth

  11. Victoria Climbie Inquiry 16.11 ‘ There can be no excuse or justification for failing to take adequate steps to protect a vulnerable child simply because that child’s cultural background would make the necessary action somehow inappropriate. This is not an area in which there is much scope for political correctness.’

  12. ‘Multicultural sensitivity is not an excuse for moral blindness’ - Mike O’Brien 1999

  13. Contact details Detective Inspector Glen Lloyd Metropolitan Police Violent Crime Directorate Glen.Lloyd2@met.police.uk 020 7321 7248

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