Catching criminals and managing offenders
Crime investigation
Improved training for our enquiry centre staff will enable them to undertake an early investigation to ensure any lines of enquiry are followed up. Having identified those crimes that require further investigation, we will ensure they go to the right people with the right skills.
We are already successful at solving crime and especially the more serious crimes such as murder and manslaughter. We will focus on solving more volume crime such as vehicle crime and burglary.
Custody and criminal justice
We will give officers the confidence to listen and respond to the views of victims on how offenders should be dealt with. We will encourage the resolution of minor matters quickly in a variety of ways within the community, increasing the time available for officers to patrol the streets.
We have reviewed our custody process and will make changes in the way we work to ensure our centres provide the most efficient environment for effective criminal investigations. These changes will first be tested in the new custody centre in Southampton before being used across our organisation. We will work with our partners to get the right offenders dealt with through the courts and will ensure a fair result for others who may not need such a formal and costly course of action.
Particular focus will be:
• deal more quickly and efficiently with offenders by increasing our use of community resolution.
Domestic abuse
Violence and abuse within the home can cause great harm and suffering. We are committed to supporting victims and preventing offences from happening. We will deal effectively with the violent people who harm those closest to them.
This year we will improve how we allocate crimes to the best person to make an arrest and find the best resolution as quickly as possible.
We will continue to focus on violent crime and to target drug and alcohol-related offences. We will relentlessly pursue those who present the greatest risk of serious harm to the public.
Working with partners, we will co-ordinate and lead violent crime and alcohol enforcement operations in our towns and cities.
We will aim to prevent murder and serious assaults through early intervention and partnership work to protect vulnerable victims. We will manage the behaviour of and pursue offenders through the multi-agency panels set up to achieve this.
Particular focus will be:
• catching and prosecuting violent criminals who commit offences against the vulnerable, within the home or against those they are closest to
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