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Protecting our Communities Together

Dyfed & Powys Serious Violence & Organised Crime Strategy2019 - 2021

Serious & Organised Crime (SOC) is defined as individuals planning, co-ordinating and committing serious offences, whether individually, in groups and / or as part of transnational networks. Intrinsically linked to SOC is the associated serious violence. This strategy will seek to implement long standing, durable solutions to serious violence & organised crime (SVOC) within our communities.

SVOC poses a significant threat to our communities and exploits the most vulnerable members of society. It includes drug trafficking, human trafficking and modern day slavery, organised illegal immigration, high value fraud and other financial crimes, organised acquisitive crime, cyber crime, serious violence and child sexual exploitation. It also encompasses emerging issues such as county lines and the criminal exploitation of vulnerable people.

SVOC has a significant impact upon the stability and wellbeing of our communities and places significant demand on both statutory and non-statutory agencies. Organisations must work together to provide a whole system approach to tackling this threat to our societies.

Introduction

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The aim of this strategy is to tackle and reduce the level of SVOC affecting the communities of Dyfed & Powys by working in collaborationto deliver better outcomes for our citizens. A key element of this strategy is to ensure a framework for connectivity between local delivery,intervention and strategic leadership. This strategy is consistent with the principles of the Home office Serious & Organised Crime Strategy(Nov 2018), Serious Violence Strategy (April 2018) and other relevant Local, National & Regional strategies outlined at Appendix A.

Working together to tackle serious violence and organised crime in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys

Serious Violence and Organised Crime (SVOC) Strategy 2019-21

Prosecuting and disrupting those involved in SVOC

Pursue

Reduce Threat

Stopping individuals from

becoming involved in SVOC

Increasing levels of protection against SVOC

Reducing the impact of SVOC where it occurs

Protect Prevent Prepare

Reduce the level of impact of serious violence and organised crime within our communities

Reduce Vulnerabilities


1. CAPABILITY – We will ensure that our staff are suitably trained & educated to tackle the SVOC threats that pose the greatest risk and harm to our communities.

2. INTELLIGENCE – We will ensure that action taken is based on a rich intelligence picture through better holistic data exploitation to inform community profiles and intelligence development.

3. TARGETING – We will deploy appropriate resources to proactively target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm SVOC threats affecting our communities.

4. POWERS – We will use new and improved powers and capabilities (civil and criminal) to actively target those involved in SVOC, denying criminals access to their finances, influence, assets and infrastructure.

1. DIVERSION – We will develop and increase our use of preventative methods of education, support & treatment to divert individuals from a life of SVOC and reduce offending.

2. OFFENDER MANAGEMENT - We will maximise opportunities within the offender management framework to rehabilitate known SVOC offenders and explore the diversionpathways away from SVOC.

3. VULNERABLE AT RISK – We will identify those individuals within our communities most vulnerable to becoming involved in SVOC willingly or otherwise (e.g. cuckooing) and seek to commission demand reducing interventions and support to reduce the exploitation opportunities for criminals.

4. UNDERSTANDING – We will increase our understanding of how individuals are drawn into SVOC so that we can target interventions to prevent it before it happens.

1. COMMUNITY AWARENESS – We will ensure citizens better recognise the identifiers of SVOC and take steps to protect themselves.

2. REDUCE VICTIMS – We will identify those that are most at risk quicker so that we can support them to a consistently high standard and prevent repeat victimisation. We will continue to support victims and witnesses affected by SVOC.

3. COMMUNICATIONS - We will raise awareness of the reality and consequences of involvement in SVOC and promote our success in its disruption and prevention.

4. DESIGN OUT VULNERABILITIES –We will reduce vulnerabilities within products, systems, processes and infrastructure, including leveraging the private sector - giving criminals fewer opportunities to target and exploit the vulnerable.

1. LEADERSHIP – We will provide clear focus and direction to staff to ensure they deliver against our SVOC priorities and the approach to tackling SVOC is embedded as ‘business as usual’ in each of our organisations.

2. GOVERNANCE – We will provide a clear governance structure to ensure that this strategy is delivered effectively and that there is a ‘whole system approach’.

3. COMMUNITY PROFILES – We will understand accurately the key SVOC issues / threats within our communities, utilising all available relevant data to inform local delivery plans.

4. DEFENCE – We will seek to build the highest levels of defence and resilience in vulnerable people, communities, businesses and systems.

Working together to tackle serious violence and organised crime in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Powys

Prosecuting and disrupting those involved in SVOC

Pursue Stopping individuals from

becoming involved in SVOC Increasing levels of

protection against SVOC

Protect Prevent

Serious Violence and Organised Crime Strategy 2019-21“Plan on a page”

Reducing the impact of SVOC where it occurs

Prepare


STRATEGIC DELIVERY ACTION PLAN

Pursue“Prosecuting and disrupting those involved in SVOC”

Working together we will successfully disrupt the threats from serious violence & organised crime by improving understanding of the threat posed, increasing our capability to target, investigate,

prosecute and otherwise disrupt SVOC, utilising the wide range of powers available to us.

Priorities

1 CAPABILITY – We will ensure that our staff are suitably trained & educated to tackle the SVOC threats that pose the greatest threat, risk and harm to our communities.

2 INTELLIGENCE – We will ensure that action taken is based on a rich intelligence picture through better holistic data exploitation to inform community profiles and intelligence development.

3 TARGETING – We will deploy appropriate resources to proactively target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm SVOC threats affecting our communities.

4 POWERS – We will use new and improved powers and capabilities (civil and criminal) to actively target those involved in SVOC, denying criminals access to their finances, influence, assets and infrastructure.


Strategic Delivery Action Plan

Priorities Deliverables Owner

1CAPABILITY – All partners will ensure that our assets are suitably trained & educated to tackle SVOC threats that pose the greatest threat, risk and harm to our communities.

1. We will improve our specialist on-line capabilities to combat cyber crime and other online offending.

POLICE

2. Consider a wide menu of tactical options to achieve objectives and ensure that appropriate resources are consistently deployed.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Maximise opportunities to utilise the capabilities within the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) and National Crime Agency (NCA)

POLICE

4. Ensure that appropriate training and awareness is delivered to operational staff. POLICE & PARTNERS

5. Ensure that learning is shared to improve future effectiveness (‘what works’) POLICE & PARTNERS

2 INTELLIGENCE – We will ensure that deployment is based on a rich intelligence picture through better holistic data exploitation to inform community profiles and intelligence development.

1. Ensure that operational intelligence and objectives (where appropriate) are shared across the partnership so that all interested parties are informed and involved in the response.

POLICE

2. Ensure that we act on the threats and vulnerabilities identified from our local community profiles.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Staff deployments are to be intelligence led, evidence based and explore what opportunities can be afforded by the use of academia to inform targeting and resource deployment.

POLICE & PARTNERS

4. Ensure that our intelligence collection capabilities can accurately identify the greatest threats and risk (e.g. the evolving nature of cyber enabled & dependent crime)

POLICE & PARTNERS

Pursue


Strategic Delivery Action Plan Pursue

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3TARGETING – We will deploy appropriate resources to proactively target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm SVOC threats affecting our communities.

1 . Deliver justice and swift prosecutions to those involved in SVOC (e.g. improve processes surrounding drug testing for evidential identification and timescales for the examination of electronic devices).

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Consistently deliver appropriate operational objectives and tactical approaches. POLICE

3. Ensure that the tasking process is effectively identifying the highest harm SVOC threats and informed by the most rich and accurate intelligence.

POLICE

4. Exploit all opportunities to identify and target SVOC threats within hard to reach communities (e.g. CSE, Modern day slavery).

POLICE & PARTNERS

4POWERS – We will use new and improved powers and capabilities (civil and criminal) to actively target those involved in SVOC, denying criminals access to their finances, influence, assets and infrastructure.

1. Ensure that we robustly use all powers available to us, not only to catch and convict, but also to deter criminals from offending in our communities.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Be innovative in our use & application of new powers, tools and orders in our pursuit of disruption opportunities.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Maximise the use of nationality & immigration powers against foreign national offenders (FNO) involved in SVOC.

POLICE

Protecting Our Communities Together


Prevent“Stopping individuals from becoming involved in SVOC”

Working together we will stop people becoming involved in serious violence & organised crime or providing support for SVOC by improving our understanding of the pathways to SVOC, diverting

vulnerable people away from SVOC and seeking to rehabilitate, support and treat offenders.

Priorities

1 DIVERSION – We will develop and increase our use of preventative methods of education, support & treatment to divert individuals from a life of SVOC and reduce offending.

2 OFFENDER MANAGEMENT - We will maximise opportunities within the offender management framework to rehabilitate known SVOC offenders and explore the diversion pathways away from SVOC.

3VULNERABLE AT RISK – We will identify those individuals within our communities most vulnerable to becoming involved in SVOC willingly or otherwise (e.g. cuckooing) and seek to commission demand reducing interventions and support to reduce the exploitation opportunities for criminals.

4UNDERSTANDING – We will increase our understanding of how individuals are drawn into SVOC so that we can target interventions to prevent it before it happens.




1DIVERSION – We will develop and increase our use of preventative methods of education, support & treatment to divert individuals from a life of SVOC and reduce offending.

1. Encourage a joined up approach to service delivery ensuring that there is a consistent application of pathways to services to increase our ability to address offending behaviour and tackle the root cause.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Carefully consider and evaluate the use of alternative diversion services. POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Ensure that children affected by SVOC or vulnerable to SVOC are identified and supported. Ensure that schools are engaged with both proactively and reactively. Seek interventions and strategies to break the cycle and pathways into SVOC.

POLICE & PARTNERS

4. Be proactive in seeking sources of funding to secure the services and interventions necessary.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2OFFENDER MANAGEMENT - We will maximise opportunities within the offender management framework to rehabilitate known SVOC offenders and explore the diversion pathways away from SVOC.

1. Work closely with HMPPS to ensure that we maximise initiatives to support and rehabilitate SVOC offenders whilst in prison and upon release.

POLICE & HMPPS

2. Increase our use of civil orders (e.g. Serious Crime Prevention Orders and Trafficking Protection Orders) and their robust monitoring and enforcement to reduce re-offending.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Maximise opportunities via the criminal justice system to compel offenders to engage with treatment and support services.

POLICE & PARTNERS

4. Maximise opportunities to de-brief SVOC offenders and those vulnerable to SVOC to understand the barriers and pathways into & away from SVOC.

POLICE & PARTNERS

Prevent




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VULNERABLE AT RISK – We will identify those individuals within our communities most vulnerable to becoming involved in SVOC willingly or otherwise (e.g. cuckooing) and seek to commission demand reducing interventions and support to reduce the exploitation opportunities for criminals.

1. Exploit all organisational data to identify and map those individuals most vulnerable and susceptible to SVOC.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Utilise the wide range of powers and tools to effectively safeguard those exploited and develop appropriate strategies to prevent any repeat victimisation.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Increase the awareness and understanding of front line staff so that they are better equipped to identify vulnerability, distinguish from offending and the relevant mechanisms available to safeguard.

POLICE & PARTNERS

4. Maximise all opportunities for the commissioning of new interventions and support mechanisms.

POLICE & PARTNERS

4UNDERSTANDING – We will increase our understanding of how individuals are drawn into SVOC so that we can target interventions to prevent it before it happens.

1. Review and consider National / Regional analysis (to include academia) to develop our understanding of how individuals are drawn into SVOC with particular attention to embedding an ACE / trauma informed approach.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Increase our use of 3rd sector service initiatives / campaigns (e.g. Crime stoppers) to remove any barriers (e.g. fear of reprisal / retribution) from obtaining information & intelligence.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Ensure existing services are fully evaluated in order to improve our understanding of what works going forward.

POLICE & PARTNERS

Prevent



Protect“Increasing levels of protection against SVOC “

Working together we will strengthen protection against SVOC by empowering vulnerable individuals and communities to protect themselves from SVOC, reduce repeat victims and design

out vulnerabilities .

Priorities

1 COMMUNITY AWARENESS – We will ensure citizens better recognise the identifiers of SVOC and take steps to protect themselves.

2 REDUCE VICTIMS – We will identify those that are most at risk quicker so that we can support them to a consistently high standard and reduce repeat victimisation. We will continue to support victims and witnesses affected by SVOC.

3 COMMUNICATIONS - We will raise awareness of the reality and consequences of involvement in SVOC and promote our success in its disruption and prevention.

4 DESIGN OUT VULNERABILITIES – We will reduce vulnerabilities within products, systems, processes and infrastructure, including leveraging the private sector - giving criminals fewer opportunities to target and exploit the vulnerable.




1COMMUNITY AWARENESS – We will ensure citizens better recognise the identifiers of SVOC and take steps to protect themselves.

1. Implement an effective communication strategy that reaches all aspects of our communities.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Explore any funding pathways to employ a designated SVOC PROTECT role that can exclusively co-ordinate and deliver community awareness. Seek to collaborate with roles that already exist within the cyber and serious violence arenas.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Local surveys in key threat areas to ensure that the environment is conducive to feeling safe.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2REDUCE VICTIMS – We will identify those that are most at risk quicker so that we can support them to a consistently high standard and reduce repeat victimisation. We will continue to support victims and witnesses affected by SVOC.

1. Develop projects to deliver targeted local interventions to raise awareness, build resilience in communities & draw vulnerable people away from SVOC.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Identify accurately who is harmed, quicker. Ensure that those affected by SVOC are provided appropriate support to help them cope, recover & prevented from becoming victims again.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Encourage citizens to identify the financial exploitation mechanisms of SVOC in all its forms, and cease using goods, infrastructure and services reducing demand.

POLICE & PARTNERS

Protect




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COMMUNICATIONS - We will raise awareness of the reality and consequences of involvement in SVOC and promote our success in its disruption / prevention.

1. Implement creative & innovative communication campaigns where key messages have relevance & long lasting impact.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Consider appropriate branding so that our response to SVOC becomes easily identifiable across agencies and communities.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Prioritise the delivery of messages to the most vulnerable groups (e.g. young people, the elderly) and ensure that delivery is appropriate, effective and captures the widest audience.

POLICE & PARTNERS

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DESIGN OUT VULNERABILITIES – We will reduce vulnerabilities within products, systems, processes and infrastructure, including leveraging the private sector -giving criminals fewer opportunities to target and exploit .

1. Identify, assess and map our vulnerabilities so that we can effectively prioritise and decide upon appropriate strategies.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Maximise target hardening of vulnerable communities / locations. Lobby the private sector and encourage to support creative initiatives.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Ensure that our education, support and treatment services are fit for purpose and maximised. They are essential to reduce the demand which will affect the supply of SVOC. Map services available and pathways so that they are widely accessible.

POLICE & PARTNERS

Protect



Prepare“Reducing the impact of SVOC where it occurs”

Working together with our partners will reduce the impact of serious violence & organised crime by dealing effectively with criminal attacks and ensuring swift recovery by building

capabilities to respond and recover from high impact criminal incidents. Ensuring that we have effective processes, systems and governance will prepare us for SVOC threats.

Priorities

1LEADERSHIP – We will provide clear focus and direction to staff to ensure they deliver against our SVOC priorities and the approach to tackling SVOC is embedded as ‘business as usual’ in each of our organisations.

GOVERNANCE – We will provide a clear governance structure to ensure that this strategy is delivered effectively and that there is a ‘whole system approach’. 2

3 COMMUNITY PROFILES – We will understand accurately the key SVOC issues / threats within our communities , utilising all available relevant data to inform local delivery plans

4DEFENCE – We will seek to build the highest levels of defence and resilience in vulnerable people, communities, businesses and systems.




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LEADERSHIP – We will provide clear focus and direction to staff to ensure they deliver against our SVOC priorities and the approach to tackling SVOC is embedded as ‘business as usual’ in each of our organisations.

1. Ensure accountability, grip, focus and momentum for the delivery of this strategy.POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Communicate and promote this strategy within all organisations. Ensure that executive leads within each organisation influence and deliver awareness, expectations & performance management.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Agencies are to actively support each other so that they can consistently deliver the aims and objectives of this strategy.

POLICE & PARTNERS

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GOVERNANCE – We will provide a clear governance structure to ensure that this strategy is delivered effectively and that there is a ‘whole system approach’.

1. Utilise the regional and local SVOC boards to manage and monitor delivery plans. Ensure that there is appropriate representation at these boards.

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Ensure that delivery plans are realistic, achievable and that progress is made and monitored.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Ensure that information sharing pathways are established and lawful. An information sharing protocol to be ratified (WASPI) that gives confidence to partners when sharing information.

POLICE & PARTNERS

Prepare




3COMMUNITY PROFILES – We will understand accurately the key SVOC issues / threats within our communities , utilising all available relevant data to inform local delivery plans

1. Understand what relevant data partners hold, map these datasets and establish pathways for the regular sharing of information and intelligence to inform both strategic and tactical activity

POLICE & PARTNERS

2. Develop rich community profiles relevant to each of our counties in Dyfed Powys. The aim is to ensure that these are not solely Police information centric.

POLICE & PARTNERS

DEFENCE – We will seek to build the highest levels of defence and resilience in vulnerable people, communities, businesses and systems.

1. Maximise opportunities to adopt a problem solving approach (utilising the OSARA model) to ensure that solutions are determined collectively.

POLICE & PARTNERS

42. Seek to move towards a more preventative & treatment based approach to

supporting those vulnerable to SVOC.

POLICE & PARTNERS

3. Explore opportunities to influence the private sector to engage in preventative interventions and schemes.

POLICE & PARTNERS

4. We will undertake multi agency professional development events to mature and test our preparedness to respond to current and emerging SVOC threats (e.g. table top exercises, workshops, etc.).

POLICE & PARTNERS

Prepare


∗ As a result of an effective implementation of this strategy we will be able to measure and demonstrate:

1. We have made it harder for SVOC threats to operate in our communities 2. We have a more accurate understanding – by way of community profiles – of the SVOC threats,

risk and those most vulnerable within our communities. 3. New data and intelligence capabilities have targeted and disrupted Serious violence and

organised criminals and networks.4. A range of working partnerships are embedded that enable us to sharpen and accelerate our

response5. Communities, individuals and organisations are reporting that they are better protected and better

able to protect themselves; and victims are better supported to recover from their abuse or exploitation.

6. Fewer young people are engaging in criminal activity or re-offending.

Measure Success


∗ This strategy has taken regard of and is consistent with the following National, regional, local products:

Home office Serious & Organised Crime strategy (November 2018) Home office Serious Violence strategy (April 2018) All Wales Serious violence ad vulnerability strategic review 2018/2019 Dyfed Powys Police & crime commissioner ‘deep dive scrutiny review’ into Dyfed Powys’s

approach to tackling illegal drugs (April 2019) Dyfed Powys Police’s Force management statement (FMS) – Serious & Organised Crime

(Draft – not yet published) NPCC Serious & Organised peer review of Dyfed Powys (December 2018) Well being of future generations (Wales) act 2015

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