Is it your turn to help protect young people from exploitation?

FORCEWIDE

Have you seen our latest Look Again campaign raising awareness of child criminal and sexual exploitation?

Do you want to play your part and help protect young people from exploitation?

We have a number of roles available, giving you the opportunity to do just that.

Many choose to join the police to give back to the community they know and love, whilst protecting and helping the most vulnerable residents, creating a community which is stronger, safer, and more resilient.

We always encourage our communities to speak to us, express their concerns and provide any information which could assist officers in any of their investigations. This information helps build the bigger picture around all crime types, but what if you could dive deeper into this and take that information to use it to tackle the most heinous of crimes – like child criminal and sexual exploitation?

Protecting Vulnerable People

Over the past four weeks, you’ve been hearing from those officers who are dedicated to protecting vulnerable people within our specialist Vulnerability Hub spearheaded by the Protecting Vulnerable People Unit (PVP).

You can join the team as a PVP Support Officer, responsible for providing clerical and administrative support to the Vulnerability Hub on Child Protection cases, planning, updating files and issuing a variety of reports.

You’ll also be responsible for undertaking urgent and critical research, assisting in the analysis and distribution of information provided by our communities, and collating and summarising the information. You’ll also be liaising with partner agencies such as social services to ensure that accurate information is obtained to help protect those that could well be at risk, or already involved, in cases of exploitation.

HP - PVP Support Officer - Humberside & South Yorkshire Police (tal.net)

Conviction Services

As you heard from Inspector Nathan Reuben, responsible for our Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking, and Child Exploitation Teams, the information you provide helps us build up the bigger picture so we can fully understand the situation and any offences that are being committed.

We then put a full evidence package together, enabling us to put offenders before the courts.

As a Case Worker sitting within the Conviction Services, you will undertake a varied range of duties including inputting and updating court results, cautions, reprimands, and warnings onto our Police National Computer (PNC).

You’ll also be creating, updating, and maintaining criminal records on the PNC, including Magistrates and Crown Court Bail conditions, simple cautions, conditional cautions, and youth cautions.

HP - Case Worker (Conviction Services) - Humberside & South Yorkshire Police (tal.net)

Research

Organised Crime Groups can often take advantage of vulnerable young people and exploit them criminally and sexually and that’s why we have a dedicated Yorkshire & Humber Regional Organised Crime Unit who investigate serious and organised crime and look to bring the highest harm offenders to justice.

As a researcher, you would be providing support to investigation teams and departments to assist in building complete and accurate pictures of a range of crime types and criminal activity across the region.

You will delve into researching internal and external systems to find key information that will support in their investigations and enquiries, ultimately to support in bringing justice to victims.

EXT - Researcher - Humberside & South Yorkshire Police (tal.net)

If you have any concerns or information about child sexual or criminal exploitation call 101 quoting Operation Makesafe.

Alternatively, you can call the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

In an emergency always dial 999.

Signs of a child or young person being in an exploitative relationship can vary. Some examples are:

• going missing from home or care
• physical injuries
• misuse of drugs or alcohol
• involvement in offending
• repeat sexually transmitted infections, pregnancies or terminations
• absenteeism from school
• deterioration in physical appearance
• evidence of online sexual bullying
• evidence of vulnerability on social networking sites
• emotional distance from family members
• receiving gifts from unknown sources
• recruiting others into exploitative situations
• poor mental health
• self-harming
• thinking about or attempting suicide