Police Oracle - Children and Young People

Children and Young People

Showing Stories from 23rd March 2021 to 2nd August 2021

Get'em young - are we trying to engage with children too late?

(02/08/21) A Met BCU is piloting a project that puts officers in primary schools to build relationships with children before they reach secondary school after finding barriers are going up younger.

Blanket stop and search challenged by researchers

(29/07/21) The Prime Minister's belief in stop and search has been challenged by academic research.

(21/07/21) Police and health partner up to improve Scotland's comunities

Former head of force comms pleads guilty to indecent images charge

(16/07/21) Cleveland department head resigned after NCA revealed indecent downloads.

(06/07/21) CTP works with parenting website as extremists target kids online (06/07/21) Drugs diversion project in Northants aims to tackle local issues (24/06/21) Greater Manchester defends plans to put more officers in schools (24/06/21) Child sexual abuse victims 'accused of lying by police', says report (10/06/21) New knife crime toolkit (01/06/21) What is the serious violence duty? (01/06/21) Reoffending rates drop (26/05/21) Missing children vulnerable to exploitation (25/05/21) Mark and recapture method doubles estimate of active sex offenders (21/05/21) What's with all the missing kids? (12/05/21) Many children pleading guilty when innocent says research (05/05/21) Crime prevention: a new blueprint for success (04/05/21) PC dismissed for using excessive force on learning disabled girl (01/05/21) Story book character joins Thames Valley's ranks for youth engagement (30/04/21) Mentoring and peer mentoring in criminal justice (28/04/21) Four forces to pilot SRVOs (26/04/21) Border Force and youth teams join national knife crime operation

Racism: are police officers being unfairly stereotyped?

(21/04/21) This piece was originally written three years ago after three programmes concerning Stephen Lawrence were shown on the BBC. These were the catalyst for the Stephen Lawrence Memorial Day announced by Theresa May. The article has been updated to include recent events.