In a speech at the Association of Youth Justice Service Managers Conference last week (22 June), Fraser told delegates that the YJB is “concerned” that more children may enter the youth justice system due to the programme, which saw the recruitment of an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales between September 2019 and May this year.
Fraser said that the effects of the uplift were already emerging, including the challenge of having a “less experienced police service where a third of officers have less than five years of service”.
“In some areas we are concerned that this may lead to more children being drawn into the youth justice system,” he said.
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