Training Material
Training
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Here is a copy of the training material for this course. This link will always contain the most up-to-date slides
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The purpose of the training with West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is to brief the officers on the refreshed WYP neighbourhood policing strategy, and the contributions of community engagement to tackle criminality. The overarching narrative of the briefing shows that the value set of the officers, the Neighbourhood Policing team (NPT), the Peelian Principles, National Police Chief’s Council (NPPC) and the College of Policing, the Police and Crime Commissioner strategy (PPC) and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). All these must be aligned for neighbourhood policing to be effective.
The training sessions themselves consisted of introducing what how Intensive Engagement works with police forces and public agencies in neighbourhood policing and public safety & wellbeing. The officers were shown a short video from the Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) describing the importance of the training and were given an 11 question survey to mark their progress through the training, which will remain anonymous. The training is structured in three sections, the first allowed for the officers to explore how community engagement is useful and to look at the criteria that makes it effective. The second was a workshop devised in such a way that the officers had to create ‘street level’ strategies, rather than just reactive tasks; to try and tackle the problem as if it was going on in their area. The third was to prepare the officers for after the training by getting them to start thinking about the first steps of making community engagement more effective. During the first section of the training, the officers were asked what attracted them to their job. The question was used to allow the officers to speak openly and honestly amongst the other officers and with those from Intensive Engagement, something that would be needed later when asked about the problems they faced as neighbourhood officers. With regards to the answers they gave, the majority said that the pensions, stable careers, catching criminals, driving pursuit vehicles, helping the public and making a difference were key values. The officers where then asked about the purpose of neighbourhood policing, while they did show to have an idea of what the purpose neighbourhood policing was, they did not have a up to date, working definition. They were then taken through the definitions of community engagement set by the College of Policing, and the Peelian Principles; showing full explanation for each of the principles and then a shorter, easier to remember version, and the NPCC’s vision for neighbourhood policing for 2025. The officers the discussed the Police and Crime Plan for West Yorkshire, which prioritises many different crimes. When asked if the list could be prioritised, the officers found it difficult because of the way that senior officers would prioritise one crime for one week and another the next. This, and being abstracted to reactive tasks, meant that they could not focus on an issue long enough to tackle it properly. They were then taken through the three pillars and the four key elements of strategy, both mentioned previously by the ACC. In section two, the officers were asked whether or not they were doing an effective job at delivering community engagement in their areas. A simple scale from 1-10 was used to track how the officers scored themselves and could be used to compare the answers that other officers had given. The officers were then shown the College of Policing’s 2018 criteria, although they were not aware of the criteria until shown it. The officers were shown an example community engagement scenario that contained many different layers to it, the officers had to devise strategies that would work for each problem within the scenario and would work long term instead of just being reactive. They were asked to use the Peelian Principles to help create these strategies to ensure more effective community engagement. In the final section, the officers are asked to discuss the homework they were given and to begin to work out strategies that could be used in their area, similar to the way they were creating them for the workshop scenario, but using a specific issue that occurs most within that area, or one that can be used as a starting point for the training. The officers should begin to use the first three steps outlined by Intensive Engagement and use the LISP proforma to begin to plan their strategies. Neighbourhood policing is not an easy job. It is a specialist role which is difficult to do because of the way priorities are managed by the PCC. It is also a job for those who have signed up for it specifically, as opposed to those who are possibly new to policing and would prefer to work in a different capacity, and therefore are not suited to neighbourhood policing. This would increase turnover and would mean the loss of officers. This is the reason for Intensive Engagements’ involvement with West Yorkshire Police, to help neighbourhood officers devise solutions within their area, to tackle and reduce crime and to help the community begin to police their neighbourhood alongside the police. Jack Stevens, Intensive Engagement Ltd |
LISP proforma |
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At the end of your training, you will be expected to return to your neighbourhood, and complete Step 1 of the LISP toolkit that supports community engagement. Here is a full copy of the proforma for you to download and complete.
Impact Evaluation |
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This document will be used to evaluate the experiences and skills of the trainees before and after the training sessions
National Decision Model
Some trainees asked about the relationship between the Intensive Engagement model and the National Decision Model.
The image to the right shows the IE approach imposed over the NDM. IE's toolkit, called LISP, is a more sophisticated use of NDM, specially designed for use in complex neighbourhood situations where sustainable solutions need to be designed and implemented by the community.
The NDM model is still being used, but the streps involve different activities and different outcomes.
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SARASimilarly, many officers have been trained using SARA as a basic model. Again, the IE approach (LISP model) builds on that basic framework. The Scan stage is vital to the framing of the problem in the first place- is it a complex problem? The Analyse step requires finding and recruiting highly capable and highly connected members of the public to help understand the problem thoroughly before any response is put in plan and the interventions assessed.
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