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.

Violence costs NHS £2.9 billion a year Around half of violent offences are thought to be alcohol related (44% in ) 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 ….

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

IMF Public spending projections

Community safety funding Fall in community safety funding from to – 60% (Incorporation of DIP money from ) Allocation of CSF for is £90m for (reduced from £123m in ) CSF for Norfolk is £700,000

MAKING THE LINKS: VCSE and PCCs

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 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.

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