SOUTH YORKSHIRE KNIFE CRIME STRATEGY 2018/21 2 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy
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South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy 1 SOUTH YORKSHIRE KNIFE CRIME STRATEGY 2018/21 2 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy BY WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE RESILIENT, STRONG COMMUNITIES AND BE MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EVER BEFORE. South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy 3 Contents Foreword 5 Partnerships 32 Operation Fortify 6 Delivery 34 Our beliefs 8 Challenges ............................................ 34 Governance .......................................... 34 Knife crime 11 Our vision ............................................. 35 Performance 12 Our aims ............................................... 35 National overview ................................. 12 Our objectives 36 South Yorkshire overview ..................... 14 Prepare ................................................. 37 Perception 16 Prevent ................................................. 38 Why have we seen a rise? .................... 16 Protect .................................................. 39 Pursue .................................................. 40 Problems 18 Our outcomes 41 What is the relationship between gangs and knife crime? ........................ 18 Prepare ................................................. 41 Youth offending .................................... 20 Prevent ................................................. 41 Night-time economy ............................. 21 Protect .................................................. 42 Habitual knife carriers ........................... 22 Pursue .................................................. 42 People 24 Victim profile ......................................... 24 Offender profile ..................................... 26 Place 27 Key locations ........................................ 27 Serious violence in key locations ......... 28 Premise types ....................................... 30 4 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy PROTECTING THOSE MOST IN NEED, MUST BE A PRIORITY FOR US ALL. South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy 5 Foreword We are determined to do everything I am pleased to introduce this within our power to eradicate these strategy, which sets out how we problems from our streets, neighbours and intend to tackle knife crime across communities across our county. We are South Yorkshire. proud of South Yorkshire and of the people who live and work here who continue It builds on best practice from many unfailingly to give us support. We want to other parts of the country, and articulates send a clear message to those individuals our determination to keep the pressure on and gangs involved in knife crime they are criminals and ensure our county continues not welcome here. to be a safe place to live and work. Knife crime often affects those most vulnerable in our community. In South Yorkshire, many families have been Assistant bereaved; many more have seen their Chief Constable loved ones severely injured. We know we Tim Forber speak for the overwhelming majority in this county when we say this is absolutely unacceptable. It has to stop. Protecting those most in need must be a priority for us all. Detective Superintendent At a time when we are all trying to do Una Jennings more with less, investing resources in the right places and spaces has never been more important. It is clear South Yorkshire Police cannot deal with this problem alone. Working collaboratively across the public sector alongside our partners in the private, voluntary and third sector will be key to long-term success. 6 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy Operation Fortify and monitor organised criminality and Operation Fortify is South violent crime in all its forms and ensure Yorkshire’s partnership approach to active steps are taken to target, disrupt dealing with serious violent crime and and prosecute those individuals who organised criminality. participate in, or indeed orchestrate, this activity in our communities. A criminal justice-based response is not the sole solution to tackling this In addition to the traditional methods used type of harm and criminal behaviour. to tackle this type of criminality, this team Responsibility for responding to it rests in will also use a variety of regulatory tools working collaboratively across the public, and enforcement powers to target people private and voluntary sector and, crucially, and places where this criminality is taking alongside the community. In recognition place. of this, Operation Fortify was launched in autumn 2018 to send a clear message to communities across South Yorkshire this type of criminality would not be tolerated. Working together, we can create resilient, strong communities and be much more effective than ever before in stopping BY WORKING TOGETHER those who want to cause harm on our streets and in our neighbourhoods and WE CAN CREATE cities. RESILIENT STRONG At the centre of Operation Fortify is a co-located multi-agency team, who has COMMUNITIES AND BE the role of co-ordinating and monitoring MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE activity to tackle serious violent crime across South Yorkshire and beyond. It is THAN EVER BEFORE. the responsibility of this team to gather information and intelligence, to map South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy 7 OPERATION FORTIFY Operation Fortify Gold Group Strategic Governance South Yorkshire Police Operation Fortify Strategic Safeguarding Tactical Tasking and Silver Group Tactical Board Coordinating Group Governance Operation Fortify Bronze Operational Delivery Group Operation Fortify Operation Fortify TFC Intel SPOC Analyst Detective Inspector Researcher PVP SPOC IOM SPOC NPT SPOC HMIC Health Professional Social Care Manager Partnership Coordinator Detective Sergeant Wellbeing Mental Health 2 x Youth 2 x Social Worker Sheffield Futures 6 x Detective Constables ASB Civil Injections PC Justice Workers South Yorkshire Fire 1 x 6 Uniform Tasking Immigration Enforcement Housing and Rescue Service Team Trading Standards Immigration Officer 8 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy Our beliefs Violence is and remains a public PREVENTION IS THE health problem. BEDROCK OF OUR We are committed to early intervention APPROACH AND THIS and prevention because we recognise and understand that while many survive IS WHY WE SHARE being exposed to violence, they will suffer physical, mental and/or emotional health RESPONSIBILITY problems throughout the rest of their lives. We are committed to getting upstream of the issue and stopping violence before it begins. We will do this by approaching violence as a public health problem. Our commitment is clear, we aim to deliver sustainable reductions in violence and improve the quality of life/health of all those people who live in our communities and depend on us to make a difference. Prevention is the bedrock of our approach and this is why we share responsibility, committing, across a range of agencies and with our families, schools and neighbourhoods, to prevent the damage violence can cause in our county. South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy 9 PATHWAY FOR SUCCESS OUR FIVE STEP APPROACH TO VIOLENCE REDUCTION IN SHEFFIELD Primary Prevention Seeking to prevent the onset of violence or to change behaviour so violence is 1 prevented from developing Secondary Prevention To halt the progression of violence once it is established - this is achieved by early detection or early diagnosis followed by 2 prompt effective treatment Tertiary Prevention The rehabilitation of people with established violent behaviour or affected 3 as a victim Enforcement and Criminal Justice Developing innovative criminal justice practices that reduce offending behaviour 4 and racism Attitudinal Change Changing attitudes and behaviours towards all types of violence at a societal community 5 and personal level 10 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy WE AIM TO DELIVER SUSTAINABLE REDUCTIONS IN VIOLENCE AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITIES South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy 11 Knife Crime Knife crime has been defined as any In order to understand the nature offence which satisfies both of the and drivers of these offences, an following criteria: in-depth review in terms of Performance, People, Place, • Is classified as an offence of homicide, Problems, Perception and attempted murder, assault with intent to Partnerships has been completed. cause harm, assault with injury, threats to kill, sexual offences (including rape) and robbery; • Where a knife or sharp instrument has been used to injure, used as a threat, or the victim was convinced a knife was present during the offence. Knife possession offences have been defined as: • Having an article with blade or point in a public place (including school) • Threatening with a blade or sharply pointed article in a public place (including school) • Possession of an offensive weapon • Using someone to look after an offensive weapon • Threatening with an offensive weapon 12 South Yorkshire Knife Crime Strategy Performance National overview The police recorded 36,998 offences In order to understand these involving a knife or sharp instrument in the variations, work by Cardiff University, year ending June 2017, a 26% increase commissioned by the Home Office, compared with the previous year (29,476) examined the volumes of people and the highest number in the seven-year seeking treatment for violence. series (from year ending March 2011), the earliest point for which comparable data This work reviewed the data of 152 are available. emergency departments and found a steady decrease is noted 4. The past three years have seen a rise