It has been a very busy and productive first year of operation for our Prevention Hub.
The hub, which launched in November last year, is responsible for creating and delivering prevention strategies throughout the city and county, and developing practical solutions to prevent crime and disorder.
With the department’s activities spanning the entire force, the hub’s work to implement preventative activity throughout the service plays a critical role in fighting crime and keeping the public safe.
Over the last 12 months, the hub’s proactive work has contributed to 8,467 fewer victim-based crimes than in the previous 12-month period.
This significant reduction relates to crimes recorded as having a direct victim.
The hub’s preventative work has also contributed to 2,131 fewer stalking and harassment occurrences across the force area over the last year.
This work has included raising public awareness and providing advice about the use of stalking protection orders, domestic violence protection orders, and other tools the force has available to help protect victims from harm.
Just some of the many services provided by teams within the hub include:
- Offering practical advice to businesses to safeguard themselves against crime, including Safer Business engagement days
- Youth engagement initiatives, such as Mini Police and cadets, to connect with young people to prevent them from being at risk of committing a crime
- Implementing practical measures to reduce reoffending
- The management and delivery of our special constabulary
- Safeguarding and supporting victims of domestic abuse, so-called honour-based abuse, and stalking
- Suicide prevention
- Substance interventions and harm reduction
- Problem-solving coordinators
Superintendent Heather Maelor, the force’s Prevention Hub lead, said: “The department brings together all of the preventative functions from across the force to ensure prevention is at the heart of policing activities.
“The aims of the hub align with the National Prevention Strategy – fewer victims, fewer offences, and less demand on policing, achieved by addressing underlying causes and using partnership-oriented problem-solving.
“There are countless examples I could give of the good prevention work undertaken by our department and across the force this year, and the great lengths our teams have gone to in order to reduce offending and prevent things from happening in the first place as well as helping our communities.
“Prevention and problem-solving are really well embedded across our whole organisation, and for us to make and achieve that change in culture within a year is absolutely huge.”
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