Police Oracle - Youth Justice

Youth Justice

Showing Stories from 3rd December 2020 to 4th July 2023

Around 4,000 children estimated to be involved in county lines

(04/07/23) Commander Paul Brogden told the Education Committee that the scale of the problem is likely to be bigger given the rising number of children being safeguarded.

(02/06/23) New child interview model training 'around 80% of the way there' (04/04/23) Retailers who sell knives to under 18s could be fined £1m (09/02/23) Child sex abuse cases take 'an average of 614 days' to conclude

ACC calling for change to under 18s strip search policy

(08/02/23) ACC Chris Todd intends to 'go further' than the current policy by recommending that strip searches are not carried out on a young person 'unless there is an appropriate adult present'.

(12/12/22) Federation 'furious' after CPS drop case involving concussed officer

'Swiftness and certainty' the key to Thames Valley knife crime Op

(06/12/22) Acting DCC Tim De Meyer and Thames Valley PCC Matthew Barber spoke to Police Oracle about Operation Deter, which launched in Milton Keynes before being expanded into Aylesbury and Slough.

(04/08/22) Child cruelty sentencing guidelines under revision (20/07/22) 'Industrial scale' CSA work being mopped up by non-specialists (14/06/22) We see children as victims says BTP County Lines taskforce lead (27/01/22) Charge teenage thugs says Federation after 10 officers assaulted (27/01/22) The invisible road from care to prison

Innovation fund proposed to develop out of court disposal schemes

(19/01/22) Chiefs and Police and Crime Commissioners could cut crime by sharing best practice on diversion schemes for offenders, researchers have said.