The YJB has confirmed to CYP Now that it is in discussions with the Mayor for London’s policing and crime unit (MOPAC) over whether having a police presence at the troubled west London YOI could help cut violent incidents inside it and reoffending rates among young people upon release.
The move follows the publication yesterday (Tuesday) of an HM Prisons Inspectorate’s (HMPI) report into Feltham A, which houses 240 young offenders aged between 15 and 18 years old, that warns of significant levels of gang-related conflict between young people despite recent efforts to reduce violence and bullying.
In a statement, the YJB said that while “no firm decisions have yet been taken” on the introduction of police at Feltham, it is discussing with MOPAC whether it could develop a similar approach to that piloted at the Isis young adults YOI in Thamesmead that has seen officers from the Metropolitan Police's Trident Central Gangs Unit embedded there.
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