Impact Assessment Category: Surrey Police Performance

Independent Custody Visiting Scheme

Area of assessment: Independent Custody Visiting (ICV) Scheme – Surrey
Date: April 2024
Assessed by: Erika Dallinger, ICV Scheme Manager

Summary

Independent Custody Visiting is a national requirement, detailed in a Home Office Code of Practice and supported by the Independent Custody Visiting Association (ICVA), whereby specially trained members of the public make random and unannounced visits to custody suites to check on the welfare of detainees and the conditions they are being held in. Locally, Independent Custody Visiting is under the remit of the Police and Crime Commissioner who has authority for running and maintaining the scheme in their force area.

Independent Custody Visiting provides protection to detainees and the police, and reassurance to the wider community. Volunteers from Independent Custody Visiting (ICV) Schemes across the UK independently check on the welfare of detainees who may be feeling vulnerable or confused, providing independent scrutiny of their treatment and the conditions in which they are being held. Independent Custody Visiting Schemes exist to provide reassurance to local communities that they can have confidence in the way in which the police treat people who are held in their custody.

Independent Custody Visiting allows the police to demonstrate their commitment to transparency and provides public reassurance that policing in their area is fair and in accordance with statutory legislation and guidance.

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Domestic abuse and stalking perpetrator interventions

Area of assessment: Commissioning interventions for perpetrators of domestic abuse and stalking
Date: November 2022 – March 2023
Assessed by: Lisa Herrington, Head of Policy and Commissioning

Summary

A Domestic Abuse Hub in Surrey will co-ordinate the delivery of specialist programmes aimed at increasing survivor safety and reducing the harm from adults perpetrating domestic abuse and stalking.

Perpetrator interventions will offer participants the opportunity to change their attitudes and behaviours and develop skills to make positive and long-lasting change.

Through the Hub, specialist services will also deliver integrated support for adult and child survivors and specially tailored support for children and adolescents who may be using violence/abuse in their own young relationships or towards parent/carers. Work will consider the needs of the whole family, to prevent an escalation of harmful behaviours and ensure every survivor has access to the right independent support for healing.

Experts known as ‘intervention navigators’ will come together in the Hub from this range of specialist services to hold joint case discussions, which will lead to improved risk management, particularly for families. They will also co-ordinate activity which helps people to engage with services on offer, as well as work that involves other agencies in Surrey.

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