Crime and Antisocial Behaviour
Part II of a special focus on the wide range of fire and rescue service initiatives to tackle crime and disorder
Respect through education by Avon FRS
Cell fires in Surrey prisons by Matt Burrows
Arson crack down in Hampshire by Craig Mowat
More than a tick box exercise by Leicestershire FRS
Positive result with drugs and alcohol policy Grendonstar’s
Simon Truelove reports on the policy his company has written to reduce substance misuse
Thirty years and more ago…
Professor Rosemarie EvertonIn reports on the effectiveness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
“Talk, plan, drill…”
FIRE’s Philip Mason reports on JOIFF’s ‘Effective Emergency Response – Essential in a Modern Economy’ conference which took place in Trinity College, Dublin in April
Lessons from the deluge
James Fawcett reports on the lessons learned from flooding In This Section:
“FireSkills aims to give the students a sense of worth, empowerment and achievement. Many of them will have been used to negative messages and have low self-esteem, but we hope that by giving them skills and qualifications they can take with them, they will see there are different avenues available to them and different routes they can take”
Crew Manager Jon Burns on Avon’s work with young people
“Between April 2 2007, and January 25 2008, the Arson Task Force assisted with 124 investigations and deployed to 69 of them. Of the 131 incidents they contributed to, 39 per cent resulted in the arrest of suspects and 15 per cent in a conviction/detection. Of the 69 incidents that ATF deployed to, 40 resulted in arrests being made (58 per cent) and of those resulting in an arrest, 16 led to a detection (23 per cent)”
Craig Mowatt report’s on the success of Hampshire’s Arson Task Force
“Working with a small number of young people for a set period of time has much more impact than just visiting a class during school time. You get to know the individuals on the course, to see what lies beneath the bravado and understand what makes them tick”
Ed Rogers on Leicestershire’s work with young people
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