Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery Northumbria Police Action Plan Prepare Reduce the harm caused by Modern Slavery, improved victim confidence and enhanced support Improve Force cohesion Development of a Force strategy and action plan. Complete Develop partnership arrangements Establish a framework for engagement with statutory and non statutory partners Strengthen engagement with Local Partnership Board Enhance intelligence and data collection Develop communications plan in support of strategy Creation of local boards through local sub groups Develop information sharing across agencies at local and force scale Develop current intelligence collection process and improve analysis of patterns, trends and emerging threats to enhance strategic understanding and operational effectiveness Establish clear pathways for the submission of information/ intelligence into NORPOL by partners/ other agencies Develop force communications, internal and external to raise awareness and publicise activity FIB Corporate Comms Nov 2016 Oct 2016 1
Instigate performance measures Design a force performance framework capable of assessing the Police response to modern slavery Jan 2016 Prevent Prevent people from engaging in modern slavery 2
Develop infrastructure to support the strategy Develop a short, medium and long term training and awareness strategy to include all faith groups and communities, including the local business communities Enhance the service offering to communities Produce training and awareness plan Develop Team North and South to take ownership and deliver Force Strategy To keep the workforce, faith groups and business community skilled, educated and knowledgeable year on year Increase activity at a local level to engage communities and partners to identify vulnerable people and locations where strategies can be employed to increase awareness and prevent HT& MDS Development of training and awareness in Force and with partners C/Insp inspectors Investigative Skills Dec 2017 Protect Strengthen safeguards against modern slavery by protecting vulnerable people from exploitation and increasing awareness and resilience against this crime Develop Target Hardening Identify opportunities to protect against modern slavery ensuring that Northumbria is a hostile environment for related activity Force ongoing 3
Utilise intelligence to identify individuals, groups and locations vulnerable to exploitation Intelligence On going Identify targets for proactive harm reduction visits/ activity e.g. brothels, nail bars, car washes and improve use of partners and other licensing authorities to control activity e.g. Immigration and Housing Embed Multi agency safeguarding processes Strengthen support to victims and witnesses Improve victim confidence in reporting Establish and embed best practice for multi agency management of people vulnerable to modern slavery Develop in partnership, effective methods for engaging and providing support to victims and witnesses or Modern Slavery Work with partners to ensure effective multi agency response to victims/ witnesses Increase the referrals by first responders Develop ways to engage with victims to increase trust and confidence leading to increased reporting of modern slavery offences Utilise local policing to build relationships and trust and confidence with communities work with Local authorities and community Partnerships. The agreed delivery will be embedded as best practice Area Command Chief Inspectors Communities Nov 2016 ongoing 4
Pursue Prosecute and disrupt individuals and groups responsible for Modern Slavery Action Objective Update owner RAG Develop specialist support with Northumbria Develop investigative and disruption activity Improve engagement upstream Develop ease of access to specialist support within Force to advise and assist in the management of intelligence, investigations, victims, witnesses and perpetrators Develop best practice investigative strategies and approaches to Modern Slavery Ensure Modern Slavery is captured in tasking and briefing processes Develop regional relationships for information sharing to enable intervention and coordinated approach to tackling victims and perpetrators Develop cross border relationships with regional Spoc s from Police, Government agencies and NGO S Safeguarding 5