Police Resolution Data Holders - Out-of-Court Resolutions Impact

Doing Violence Reduction, issue 95: Policing and the Endogenous Point of View I have been asking the same question in training rooms for years. Officers agree without hesitation that policing is part of the criminal justice system. Asked what a system is, the room goes quiet, and the answer that arrives is organisational: a system is the set of agencies named on the diagram. System dynamics uses a different test. You are inside a system if your behaviour alters its behaviour and its behaviour alters yours, whether or not anyone drew you into the picture. Membership does not depend on consent or recognition. On that test, policing sits inside several systems it would dispute being part of, and it sits alongside several prevention partners it does not count. This issue works through the memberships officers accept once the question is put, the ones they contest, and why the feedback loops running through policing are so hard to see when a returning consequence gets recorded as a fresh incident rather than as the return leg of a loop. The second half is about what that asks of people. Systems leadership needs attributes policing does not select for, and the Police Leadership Commission has just opened the machinery that would have to change. It asks more of politicians and policymakers, who are being asked to accept longer horizons, shared credit and public exposure to being wrong in an environment that rewards none of those. I do not have a solution to that and I say so in the piece. It closes on something concrete. The out of court resolution is a decision taken in minutes that sits at the head of most of these loops, and its consequences land years later in prison places, employment and benefits, in budgets no police force holds. I am working on a framework for this with EMPAC and De Montfort University, and the material is at https://lnkd.in/eXr4bDnV. I'm honoured to be working alongside Rob Nixon CBE QPM DL, Professor John Coxhead Solution Oriented, and Dr Ahmad Al-Hiari SFHEA FIoL on this important project. If you hold data on either side of that loop, police resolution data or the services downstream that receive the consequences, I would like to hear from you. If you would like to learn more about Systems Thinking for Impact you can join one of my open sessions at the Civil Service College or get a bespoke training event for your team - https://lnkd.in/eZ6gVVWd #ViolencePrevention #SystemsThinking #Policing #Prevention #OutOfCourtResolutions