Humberside Police urges youth to join independent advisory group
The force is wanting to improve the service it provides to those aged 16 to 24
Humberside Police is urging young people to join an independent advisory group.
The force is wanting to improve the service it provides to those aged 16 to 24.
It is looking to speak to young people to see what officers can do and how they can do it which will have a real impact.
PC Carl Osler, a community cohesion officer for the East Riding, said:
"We see this really as a real opportunity for young adults to engage with and contribute to the work carried out by Humberside Police, and speak to young people who are able to affect real change. We really want young people to tell us what we do, how we do things which impacts on them and the wider public and actually how we can improve that service towards them.
"The concerns of a young person may well be totally different to the concerns that an adult would have. The essence of the youth IAG really is to find out what concerns that specific community group by speaking to those living in it and have those lived experiences.
"The sort of topics that we would be expecting to want to talk about is county lines explotation, anti-social behaviour, knife crime, stop and search powers, hate crime and online grooming. All these topics we believe are probably relevant to young people however, it may be that when we do engage with young people they actually bring up some topics that we ourselves may not be aware of.
"We are very conscious of the fact that young people for a variety of reasons don't want to engage with the police so the youth independent advisory group tries to break down that barrier between the police and the community.
"One of our officers engaged with the young community to try and divert them away from county lines exploitation and to do so, they created sporting events that would divert them away from the times that criminals who exploit young children would target them, and that's shown a real reduction in young people becoming vulnerable to that type of criminality."
Anyone who is interested can join an online meeting at 6.30pm on Wednesday 1st December by emailing spocyouthiag@humberside.pnn.police.uk