Engaging People, Protecting
Communities:
DCI Mabs Hussain
(West Yorkshire Police)
HMP Governor Andy Johnson
(Prison Service Strategic Lead)
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.
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.
Why work together: the police as a
public health placement
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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
How have we been working
together?
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Learning disabilities prevalence study
Section 136 – Mental Health Act
Custody health needs assessment
Appropriate adults
Missing persons with mental health problems
West Yorkshire prison IOM hub
• 2009 vision of Chief Constable and
Director of Offender Management
– Closer to home
– Intelligence informs resettlement
• Seconded Prison Governor
Cultural Change
Turning the Tanker !!
Prison and police
partnership.
Gene Hunt Goes to Prison
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”
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
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.
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.
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.
West Yorkshire: Lessons Learnt
the Hard Way
• Don’t underestimate the cultural
differences.
• Don’t underestimate the pace of change !
Any Questions?