Police Oracle - Children and Young People

Children and Young People

Showing Stories from 23rd January 2023 to 2nd May 2023

(02/05/23) NYP improves allocation and supervision of child protection investigations

Child abuse detective with high conviction rate named top officer

(28/04/23) DC Kerry Stringfellow has secured convictions against more than 30 dangerous individuals since starting work in the Nottinghamshire Police child abuse investigation team in 2011.

(26/04/23) Specialist plain clothes officers 'should conduct child MISPER interviews'

Force expanding trading cards initiative due to 'sheer demand'

(07/04/23) Father-of-three PC Daniel Clarke came up with the Rapid Responder trading cards idea after being inspired by his children.

(05/04/23) Police Scotland should better inform detainees about use of biometric data (05/04/23) Investigation of online child sexual abuse and exploitation 'often poor' (03/04/23) The pros and cons of pre-recorded cross examination (28/03/23) Minister: I assume police have good reasons to conduct strip-searches (27/03/23) Black children up to six times more likely to be strip-searched (14/03/23) PSNI steps up targeted searches to crack down on CSE (10/03/23) NI Policing Board to review PSNI's use of strip search (09/03/23) New Key Performance Indicators for Youth Justice (07/03/23) Revised sentencing guidelines for Child Cruelty offences (06/03/23) Scotland's new scheme to protect children from OCGs

Force profile: preventative measures

(03/03/23) Merseyside Police has a dedicated team leading prevention work across the force. The chief constable and the team leader talk to Police Oracle.

(24/02/23) UK Policing institute to join project to block child abuse images (22/02/23) Virtual reality headsets found to be used in child abuse cases (20/02/23) A growing resource for criminal justice professionals (16/02/23) Force given 10 areas of learning to improve response to child abuse (13/02/23) West Yorkshire to launch first-ever Youth Commission (09/02/23) Child sex abuse cases take 'an average of 614 days' to conclude (08/02/23) ACC calling for change to under 18s strip search policy

Bedfordshire's absenteeism project

(02/02/23) Since last year, Bedfordshire has been involved a pilot focusing on supporting young people who are frequently absent from school without involving the police.