Integrated Offender Management Scheme
The SaferPeterborough partnership is working
with other organisations to deliver the Integrated Offender
Management Scheme. Its aim is to deter, target and rehabilitate
Peterborough’s most prolific offenders in order to reduce the
number of victims of crime, the volume of crime and make the
city safer. The IOM Scheme includes the previous Prolific
and Priority Offender Scheme.
Who is eligible for IOM?
Offenders included on the IOM Scheme are
individuals who have been selected by criminal justice
organisations and partners because they are committing a
disproportionately high level of crime in the city. Offenders
are managed at one of three levels of intensity on the scheme
according to their risk of offending. By focusing on them we can
significantly reduce crime and the number of victims they impact
on.
What does the scheme do?
The scheme is made up of a number of partners including:
- Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Peterborough and Cambridgeshire Probation Trust
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Peterborough City Council
- NACRO
- Peterborough Youth Offending Service
- Connexions
- Peterborough Drug Interventions Programme & Peterborough
Drugs Service
- Job Centre Plus
- Job Deal
- The Dawn Project
- Cross Keys Homes, NeneAccent Housing and Axiom
Housing
- Drinksense
- The One Service
Partners work together to intensively manage individuals in the
scheme. If they are actively committing crimes, we target the
offender to secure arrest and speedy processing through the
criminal justice system to conviction.
We also focus on breaking the cycle of offending through the
rehabilitation of offenders. This uses recognised pathways to
reducing re-offending:
- Accommodation
- Education, training and employment
- Mental and physical health
- Finance, benefit and debt
- Drugs and alcohol
- Attitudes, thinking and behaviour
- Children and families
The scheme also works with young people at
risk of becoming the next generation of offenders in an effort to
deter them from the lifestyle at an earlier age.
Does the scheme work?
Early indications are that the scheme reduces
convictions for the highest level of offenders on IOM by 30 to 40
per cent over the course of a year.
What do the offenders say?
“No-one has ever cared enough to help me before so I just did
whatever. IOM helped me to keep my own digs, deal with my drug
use and not go out and nick from people.”
“I got stopped all the time by coppers, had them banging at my
door and bothering me all the time when I was at it. My last time
inside made me think that it wasn’t worth it.”