PREVENT
The Policing Response to the Prevention ofTerrorism & Violent Extremism
Police Implementation Plan
A Summary for Partners
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Contents
Preface
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Section APurpose of this Document
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Section BBackground
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Section CLocal Prevent Policing Activities
6Delivery Partners7Leadership, Governance And Programme Management8Objective 1: Challenge Extremist Ideology And Support Mainstream Voices10Objective 2: Disrupt Those Who Promote Violent Extremism And Strengthen Vulnerable Institutions11Objective 3: Support Individuals Vulnerable To Recruitment By Violent Extremists13Objective 4: Increase The Capacity Of Communities To Engage With And Resist Violent Extremists14Objective 5: Effectively Address Grievances16Objective 6: Develop Prevent Related Intelligence, Analysis And Research18Objective 7: Improve CT-Related Strategic Communications20
Section DProgramme Management and Review
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Section EList of Abbreviations
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PREFACE
The Government has made it clear that preventing violentextremism is the responsibility of all Government departments.It is clear, however, that the Police Service has an important roleto play. Success in addressing and preventing violent extremismwill only be achieved through partnership activity at a local level.In April 2008, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),published
The Policing Response to the Prevention ofTerrorism and Violent Extremism
. A national strategy anddelivery plan, which set out the national police servicecontribution to the Prevent strand of the Government’s CounterTerrorism Strategy. As a service, and in partnership with otheragencies, we have already begun to make progress in thedelivery of the strategy and are starting to understand muchmore about what needs to happen at a local, regional andnational level to meet the challenge.
The Policing Response to the Prevention of Terrorism andViolent Extremism Implementation Plan
, published inSeptember 2008 aimed at all forces in England and Wales,seeks to translate the national strategy into practical activitiesfor all levels in the police service. The plan is now being used asa framework to guide the police contribution to localpartnership activity aimed at preventing violent extremism. Theguidance stands alongside recent Government publications thatset out the role for local authorities and partner agencies. It hasalready been adapted by the Welsh Assembly Government foruse in Wales to reflect the different local partnershiparrangements in place here and may also be of use to the policein Scotland and Northern Ireland.Forces and Basic Command Units (BCUs) have been invited toadapt the Police Implementation Plan for use as a local actionplanning tool, tailoring it to the requirements of their localcircumstances, including a BCU Commander checklist thatprovides a breakdown of activities with suggested milestones.
The Police Implementation Plan – A Summary for Partners
describes the police Prevent delivery framework for our partnershelping to ensure that we can work together in the mosteffective way. It particularly provides guidance on the range ofactivities that forces and BCUs should consider undertaking todeliver their contribution to a local programme of action onPrevent. Delivery will vary according to local circumstances, butit is envisaged that the majority of local operational policingactivities will be delivered by BCUs working with deliverypartners, with a vital role for neighbourhood policing.Emphasised throughout the plan is the need for the police toestablish multi-agency partnerships, that include communityrepresentatives, focused on preventing violent extremism, eitherthrough a specific local partnership Prevent forum or board, orwithin an existing partnership body such as the Crime &Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP), Community SafetyPartnership (CSP) or Local Strategic Partnership (LSP).Information to be shared at a relevant level with partners is alsohighlighted, and although this represents a real challenge it isvital if partnerships are to understand the threat andvulnerability affecting local communities and put in placeeffective targeted programmes of action.