Stoke-on-Trent review

That Staffordshire Police and the National Probation Service consider how the professional curiosity of staff supervising offenders might be enhanced, including in conjunction with the use of the Active Risk Management System (ARMS).

Review the Offender Manager’s caseload to ensure that his OASys are up to date for all of offenders he is offender managing.

Review back-up systems for tracking OASys completions within the Offender Manager’s office. This system is designed to provide a back-up to Offender Managers to ensure that all risk assessments are up to date.

Work to address alcohol use should be undertaken with all offenders where it is identified as linked to risk, even if there is no evidence of current use. This should help relapse prevention in the future.

For Staffordshire Police to review the structure and the staffing of the Violent and Sex Offender Management (VSOM) team.

For Staffordshire Police to review the introduction and effectiveness of the ARMS risk management tool.

For Staffordshire Police to review and ensure that all risk management plans for Registered Sex Offenders are SMART.

For Staffordshire Police to adopt best practice concerning the removal of headgear when taking identification photographs of ViSOR subjects.

For Staffordshire Police to ensure that all the relevant staff within the VSOM team are trained in ARMS.

For Risk Assessors to ensure that all the relevant fields within each ViSOR record are fully complete.

For the Senior Management Team within Public Protection to consider ways to raise the profile of the VSOM team and develop better organisational understanding of the work that they do.

For Staffordshire Police to implement any recommendations that are made following the completion of the research commissioned by DCC Skeer.