Serious Crime Prevention Order 220/23

FOI Reference: 220/2023

 

Request:

 

This request is made in the public interest, a Serious Crime Prevention Order is an order given by the Crown Court or High Court to prevent and disrupt the offender in future serious organised crime. An SCPO attracts its own specific legal framework, please can you answer the following questions?

 

1) Does the Dyfed-Powys Police Force ensure that SCPO management officers are well trained and well versed in the management of SCPO's?

 

2) Does the force have any policy in place to ensure that SCPO management is never contaminated between cross departments, example an SCPO given for fraud offences or drug offences would not be managed by Police officers who manage violent or sexual offenders?

 

The question is very important and needs to be answered because in an example sexual offenders in prison are normally dealt with separately from the general prison population, HMPPS has a policy for this so that normal offenders cannot be confused with sexual offenders.

 

3) Does Your MOSOVO unit manage non sexual and non violent offenders? An example of MOSOVO can be found here:

https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprofdev.college.police.uk%2Fprofes&data=05%7C01%7C%7C7f92ee9cc2fe4dcfc31f08db1358a26a%7C396836551d974b22be8c246da0f47a41%7C0%7C0%7C638125043632723238%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dVrY7eKMUJBQ9NE5KZlhS96y5CKCTOcXZ5qI4Uq7f6w%3D&reserved=0...

 

 

Response 1 – 3:

 

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, the details of which are as follows:

 

• SCPO are managed by resources within the Offender Management Unit. Officers within Offender Management Units receive relevant training via a rolling programme of Continued Professional Development. Dyfed Powys Police MOSOVO Officers are additionally trained to the National Standard. Training equips Officers in the management of Civil Orders.

• SCPO are managed by resources within the Offender Management Unit. Dependant on individual offender circumstances a MOSOVO Officer may be allocated. Dyfed Powys Police observe National MAPPA Guidelines, NPCC Guidance and The College of Policing APP in respect of offender management.

 

• Yes

 

                                                                                                           

 

It should be noted that owing to the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such matters the information provided may or may not be accurate. It should be noted that for these reasons this Force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other response you may receive.  

 

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 20/03/23)