Public Protection

Question 0

What groups of people are at risk?

Answer 0

• Children and young people
• Age related - frailty, dementia, sensory impairment
• Physical / mental disability
• Leaning disability
• Victims / suspects / witnesses
• Prostitutes
• Ethnic minorities
• LGBT

Question 1

What are the 13 core areas of public protection?

Answer 1

Adults at risk
Child sex exploitation
Child abuse
Domestic abuse
Female genital mutilation
Forces marriage
Honour based violence
Serious sex offences
Human trafficking
Prostitution and violence 
Stalking and harassment
Missing persons
Managing offenders

Question 2

What different types of abuse are there?

Answer 2

Physical (ABH/ GBH/ Homicide/ neglect/ harassment/ sexual/ false imprisonment)

Emotional and psychological (stalking/verbal & written harassment/ domestic abuse/ hold abuse)

Financial (theft/ fraud/ controlling someone finances)

Question 3

Barriers to reporting offences?

Answer 3

• Lack of trust in police (previous negative experience)
• family responsibilities (don’t want to compromise kids/elderly parents care or bring shame on family)
• don’t want to criminalise person
• fear of retribution
• social isolation from family/friend/community
• may be particularly isolated if have physical / learning disability / mental illness/ LGBT / language barriers
• environmental factors (no phone / transport)
• relationship between victim an abuser (don’t want to get them in trouble/ believe they can change the abuser / rely on abuser for care / believe its their fault or its normal

Question 4

Risk assessment tool?

Answer 4

DASH

Domestic abuse and stalking harassment screening tool

Question 5

What is MAPPA?

Answer 5

Multi agency public protection arrangements

Question 6

What are the 3 categories of relevant offenders under MAPPA?

Answer 6

Cat 1 - registered offenders
Cat 2 - sexual/violent offenders sentenced to 12months or more
Cat 3 - considered by responsible authority (chief of police/local probation board/minister of crown) to pose a risk of serious harm to public

Question 7

What are the risk mgmt levels under MAPPA?

Answer 7

Level 1 - ordinary agency mgmt (can be managed by responsible agency)

Level 2 - multi agency public protection meetings (need involvement of more than 1 agency)

Level 3 - multi agency public protection meetings (requires active conferencing and senior representation from responsible authority)

Question 8

What is a PDP?

Answer 8

Potentially dangerous person

Question 9

What is a PPU?

Answer 9

Public protection unit

Question 10

Types of civil orders for public protection

Answer 10

SOPO - sexual offences protection order
FTO - foreign travel order
RSHO - risk of sexual harm order
VOO - violent offender order

Question 11

Types of human trafficking

Answer 11

‘Includes the movement of people, by deceit or force, for exploitation in different ways’

Sexual exploitation
Labour exploitation
Domestic servitude
Internal trafficking
Organ harvesting