Good morning, 

So over the last few days your Safer Neighbourhood Team have been quite busy…

Over the weekend PCSO Hillman delivered two sets of Consequences clinics to some of the young members of our local communities. These sessions are delivered on behalf of the Youth Engagement Teams. The sessions are to educate young people around what types of criminal offences there are and the different types of consequences they may be subject to depending on what they have been involved in.

We get them to think about both direct and indirect consequences of their actions such as:

Direct: 

- Being arrested and taken to custody.

- ID photograph taken and placed onto Policing database.

- Fingerprints taken and placed onto Policing database.

- DNA taken and places onto Policing database.

- Loss of personal time.

- May be given a curfew/placed onto tag.

- Community Services work.

- Criminal Behaviour Order.

Indirect:

- Could affect their career or employment opportunities.

- Could affect their educational opportunities.

- Could affect their travel opportunities as some countries will refuse to let certain people in depending on what offences they have been charged with.

- May stop them being able to work with vulnerable, young or elderly people. 

We also cover what times of sentences they could receive once charged at court such as:

- Restorative Justice

- Youth Cautions/Youth Conditional Cautions

- Fines

- Community Service Work

- Prison or Youth Offenders

- Criminal Behaviour Orders

We also cover how crime can impact not only the offender, but how they impact the victims of crime in a variety of ways such as:

- Emotions - Feeling sad, scared, anxious, angry, depressed etc.

- PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) or PTSS (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome).

We also explain that it does not matter how serious the crimes are, each individual is different and we all react and cope with things differently. 

We also cover how crime can impact businesses/organisations:

- Theft for example - knock on effects of prices of things rising, pay cuts, redundancies, loss of security staff, loss of bonuses or even businesses going bust/shutting down. 

- Making customers feel uncomfortable shopping there.

We then cover how crime impacts not only the offenders and victims, but also the families and friends of both, such as:

- Loss of personal time if they are having to continuously visit offenders in prison.

- Financially - If they are having to keep taking time out of work to visit the offenders in prison or attend the Police station to support young person. If they are unable to find employment and not contribute to financial commitments of family household.

- If they are residents/tenants of social housing, they are at risk of being made homeless as a family due to involvement in criminality.

- Social care involvement - At risk of themselves as a young person being placed into care if they cannot prevent themselves being involved in criminality. It could also raise concerns for any other young siblings and place them at risk of being placed into care if criminal or Police involvement raises concerns for these siblings. 

- Could have an impact on family members career paths as their criminal or Police involvement could effect background checks for certain jobs such as Police, NHS etc.

- Added stress/pressure on family members due to worrying about them more, worrying about social care involvement for other children etc. 

- Emotionally and can also affect them socially depending on whether details of the offences are shared publicly. 

We then discuss how crime impacts the Community such as:

- Avoidance of certain areas such as Parks.

- Lead to people feeling unsafe in those communities.

- Lead to decreased trust in others.

- The unwillingness to go out at night. 

It is really important for us to educate the young people of our communities so that we can try at the earliest opportunity prevent them from involvement in further criminal or anti-social activities.

On Tuesday 22nd, two offenders committed a Theft at St Giles Church, Matlock.

On Friday 25th PCSO Coupland, conducted all relevant enquiries including CCTV and identified both of the offenders. Further enquiries were then conducted by PC Green such as witness statements.

On Saturday 26th PCSO Coupland has then spotted both of the offenders whilst out on foot patrol and has communicated with colleagues over the Police radio as to the location of these individuals, and within a matter of minutes resulted in two male offenders being arrested and remanded to custody for Theft. *Positive result*

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