Operating Principles for Public Protection Investigation

Operational objectives, risk assessment, and prioritisation according to the safeguarding and investigative circumstances.

The development of intelligence plans for serious and organised crime including crimes in action and the management and resolution of threat to life incidents

Organised crime and the impact on communities

Offender Management, the MAPPA process and ViSOR, Preventative orders and policy to manage risk: Civil orders, Sexual Harm Prevention Orders (SHPO), Sexual Risk Orders, Potentially Dangerous Person (PDP), Violent Offender Order (VOO), and Sexual offence notification requirements (Sexual Offences Act 2003)



Adult Protection

Safeguarding Adults Board and Multi-agency working

Adult Protection Legislation and powers, and Safeguarding Adult Reviews

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Legislation & s.45 defence (Slavery Act 2015) and the National Referral Mechanism



Child Protection

Safeguarding Children’s Board and Multi-agency working for

Child Protection Legislation and powers and Safeguarding Practice Reviews

Child Death Investigation

Organised & Complex Abuse Procedures

County-lines Crime

Family Court Proceedings



Domestic Abuse



Types of Domestic Abuse

Toxic trio

Partnership response, safeguarding, child protection and preventive measures

Honour-based abuse and Forced Marriage

Prevalence of FGM, Legislation and safeguarding duty



Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation



Police Online Investigation Team (POLIT)

Safeguarding & joint working

CEOP

Digital Forensics

Covert tactics

Assessment 1 requires LO’s 2 and 3 to be addressed.

Students will produce an individual written essay based upon a critical review of policy and strategy in public protection policing. Students will be expected to consult the research literature to extend their understanding of the module`s content, and to apply appropriate theoretical perspectives and research findings to an in-depth critical evaluation, together with recommendations as to response.



Assessment 2 requires LO’s 1 and 2 to be addressed.

Students will be required to produce an individual presentation, which requires students to identify an issue in the workplace that includes aspects of multi-agency working, analyse the operational factors, seek out what the evidence says in relation to that issue and then demonstrate how it can/will be used to influence the development of a suitable response.

Critically assess operational factors to determine objectives and priorities according to the circumstances in a single or multi-agency led environment.

Critically analyse police and partnership safeguarding legislation, policy and processes including formal reviews.

Demonstrate a critical understanding of the systems and processes for safeguarding vulnerable people and critically evaluate the outcomes supporting effective response.

The module is delivered by way of online lectures (synchronous and asynchronous), which provides students with an overview of public protection and Organised crime investigation.

Detailed pre-reading will be required before taught sessions, and students will be supervised as they seek to develop ideas for their Independent Studies. The module will use a flipped learning approach from the outset which will encourage the students in the self-directed aspect of the learning in this module. Pre -reading, pre lecture study and pre lecture tasks will be a key feature of the flipped learning approach.

The lecture sessions will provide practically based scenario examples which will allow for group tasks for formative feedback.

Ali, S., Haykal, H.A. and Youssef, E.Y.M., 2021. Child sexual abuse and the internet—a systematic review. Human Arenas, pp.1-18.

Black, J.A. and Debelle, G.D., 1995. Female genital mutilation in Britain. bmj, 310(6994), pp.1590-1592.

Blair, P.S., Sidebotham, P., Berry, P.J., Evans, M. and Fleming, P.J., 2006. Major epidemiological changes in sudden infant death syndrome: a 20-year population-based study in the UK.¿The Lancet,¿367(9507), pp.314-319.

Blair, P.S., Sidebotham, P., Pease, A. and Fleming, P.J., 2014. Bed-sharing in the absence of hazardous circumstances: Is there a risk of sudden infant death syndrome? An analysis from two case-control studies conducted in the UK.¿PLoS One,¿9(9), p.e107799.

Brewster, B., Robinson, G., Silverman, B.W. and Walsh, D., 2021. Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines.¿Trends in Organized Crime, pp.1-24.

Cleaver, K., Maras, P., Oram, C. and McCallum, K., 2019. A review of UK based multi-agency approaches to early intervention in domestic abuse: Lessons to be learnt from existing evaluation studies. Aggression and violent behavior, 46, pp.140-155.

Davidson, J. and Gottschalk, P., 2011. Characteristics of the Internet for criminal child sexual abuse by online groomers. Criminal Justice Studies, 24(1), pp.23-36.

Davidson, J. and Gottschalk, P. eds., 2010. Internet child abuse: Current research and policy.

Davies, G., 2020. Shining a light on policing of the dark web: an analysis of UK investigatory powers. The Journal of Criminal Law, 84(5), pp.407-426.

Donovan, C., Hester, M., Holmes, J. and McCarry, M., 2006. Comparing domestic abuse in same sex and heterosexual relationships. United Kingdom: University of Sunderland and University of Bristol.

Firmin, C. and Lloyd, J., 2020.¿Contextual safeguarding: a 2020 update on the operational, strategic and conceptual framework¿. Contextual Safeguarding Network.

Fox, C.L., Hale, R. and Gadd, D., 2014. Domestic abuse prevention education: listening to the views of young people. Sex Education, 14(1), pp.28-41.

Gilchrist, E., 2013. Domestic Abuse in the UK Why We Need to Understand. Violence against women: Current theory and practice in domestic abuse, sexual violence, and exploitation, 56, p.159.

Haughey, C. (2016), The modern slavery act review. UK. home office

HM Government. (2014), Modern slavery strategy. UK. home office

HM Government. (2018), Working together to safeguard children, a guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. UK. DfE

Kewley, S. and Blandford, M., 2017. The development of the active risk management system. Journal of Criminal Psychology.

Kewley, S., 2017. Policing registered sex offenders. Journal of forensic practice.

Kewley, S., Osman, S. and McGuinness, Á., 2020. How well do police specialists risk assess registered sexual offenders?. Journal of sexual aggression, 26(3), pp.302-315.

Mann, N., Devendran, P. and Lundrigan, S., 2020. Policing in a time of austerity: understanding the public protection paradox through qualitative interviews with police monitoring officers.¿Policing: a journal of policy and practice,¿14(3), pp.630-642.

Martellozzo, E., 2015. Policing online child sexual abuse-the British experience. European Journal of Policing Studies, 3(1), pp.32-52.

McCartan, K.F., Hoggett, J. and O’Sullivan, J., 2018. Police officer attitudes to the practicalities of the sex offenders’ register, ViSOR and Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Scheme in England and Wales. Journal of sexual aggression, 24(1), pp.37-50.

McCreadie, C.¿(2000), No Secrets:¿guidance in England for the protection of vulnerable adults from abuse,¿The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. 2 No. 3, pp. 4-16.¿

McGarry, J., Simpson, C. and Hinchliff-Smith, K., 2011. The impact of domestic abuse for older women: a review of the literature. Health & social care in the community, 19(1), pp.3-14.

Ohchr, U., Undp, U., Unesco, U. and UNIFEM, W., 2008. Eliminating Female genital mutilation. An interagency statement. Geneva: WHO.

Peckover, S., 2014. Domestic abuse, safeguarding children and public health: Towards an analysis of discursive forms and surveillant techniques in contemporary UK policy and practice. British Journal of Social Work, 44(7), pp.1770-1787.

Proudman, C. and Lloyd, F., 2022. The impact of COVID-19 on women and children in the UK who were victims of domestic abuse: a practitioner perspective. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, (ahead-of-print).

Rachel Filinson¿(2006)¿“No Secrets” and Beyond: Recent Elder Abuse Policy in England,¿Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect,¿18:1,¿1-18.

Sidebotham¿P Unexpected but not unexplained: investigating a case of sudden unexpected death in infancy Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice¿2005;90:ep40-ep45.



Strang, H., Neyroud, P. and Sherman, L., 2014. Tracking the evidence for a ‘mythical number’: Do UK domestic abuse victims suffer an average of 35 assaults before someone calls the police?. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 8(2), pp.222-228.



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World Health Organization, 1997. Female genital mutilation: a joint WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA statement. World Health Organization.

World Health Organization, 1998. Female genital mutilation: an overview. World Health Organization.



VKPP (2021), Learning for the police from safeguarding adult reviews: a second briefing concerning SARS produced by the VKPP. UK. Vulnerability, Knowledge & Practice Program.

During this module, you will be encouraged to utilise Microsoft Teams and Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to support your learning. You will be invited to collaborate with students and academic staff virtually through Microsoft Teams. You will have access to a range of materials on Blackboard VLE including articles, lecture slides, and interactive activities. You will also be able to access a variety of digital material through our¿Library¿and¿specialist¿databases.¿

This module provides an opportunity to examine policy and process of police and the wider safeguarding partnership that are in place to protect vulnerable people. Failures in the public protection arena have far reaching consequences, they invariably involve some of the most vulnerable and desperate people in society and often contain missed opportunities. This module scrutinises research and learning from adverse cases and identifies features for professionals to engage safeguarding protocols at the earliest opportunity.