The Prevent Strategy and Local
Communities
Stuart Harman
My Background
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Primarily uniformed operations on BCU
Worked in Oldham since 2003
Last post partnership and community safety
Bring BCU perspective to CT policing
Current Role
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Head of CTIU
GM prevent lead
North West Prevent lead
‘Any other duties’
Pathfinder Year
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GM steering group in place
Prepared bid for GM February 07
£700,000 funding acquired
Intelligence led allocation of funding
Risk areas prioritised
PVE coordinators established
Information Sharing
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Probably the most significant challenge
Why do we need to share?
What do we share?
How do we do it?
What are the associated risks?
What do people want to know?
What are we seeking to achieve?
• Identify Violent Extremism in communities
• Identify opportunities to confront and reduce the
threat in line with the PREVENT agenda
• Provide a Mechanism to support Intelligence led
CT activity at BCU / Partner level
• Focus community engagement activity within
neighbourhoods
Greater Manchester
Partnership Architecture
AGMA
(10 greater
Manchester Local
Authorities)
Preventing
Violent
Extremism
Steering
Group
Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) Programme Team
Develops partnership working between:
AGMA, GMPA, DCLG, OSCT, Home Office, DCSF, GONW, Local Authorities,
Regional Police Forces
(Deal with objectives 1,2,3,4,5)
AGMA & GMP
CTU Preventing
Violent
Extremism
Programme Team
Preventing Violent
Extremism
Coordinator Group
Prevention
Cell
(Deals with objectives 2,4,5)
Vulnerable to
Radicalisation
Project
Youth Justice
Board Project
(Deals with objectives 2,3,5)
(Deals with objectives 3 and 4)
PVE Steering Group
• L.A. Chair
• Strategic direction for PVE programme
• Ensure relationship between GMP, AGMA
& partners
• Maintain link into AGMA colleagues
• Joined up working
• Source of challenge and influence for Govt
PVE Coordinators’ Group
• Delivery of DCLG PVE programme locally
• Ensure local relationships built with
partners
• Share learning and practice
• Give guidance to the emerging local
partnership(s)
• Act as L.A. point of contact
Challenge:
How do we share information with a degree of
consistency?
L.A.
CT Briefing Group
L.A.
L.A.
CEX & BCU Commander
CT Delivery Group
L.A.
L.A.
AGMA
Director Level Group
L.A.
L.A.
Practitioners
L.A.
L.A.
How it will look?
CT Briefing Group
CEX & BCU
Commander
 CT Briefing - CEX & BCU Commander
Meeting
 Readership decision
 Appropriate Directorate and/or Head of
Service for response
 CT Delivery - Directorate Level Group
Constitution
CT Delivery Group
Directorate Group
TASKING
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Decision makers
Allocate resource
Ensure delivery
Prevent Cell
PVE Programme Team
 Action Management
Practitioners
 Performance monitoring
 Local Tasking Meeting
What are we going to achieve?
 Strengthened commissioning
 Advise and offer guidance on project /event
planning
 Maintain focus on Prevent
 Promulgate good practice
 Ensure LA and BCU prevent action plans are
complimentary
 Support evaluation
 Developed understanding of communities
Lessons learnt
• Good relations and relationships are critical
• Strategic group invaluable across multiple
authorities
• Local steering group will provide
accountability and facilitate delivery
• Try to use existing mechanisms
• Must have access to the ‘intelligence’