Olivia Pinkney has the tough task of turning the police service into a "children first" organisation. That is the overarching aim of the first National Strategy for the Policing of Children and Young People, which Pinkney, deputy chief constable of Sussex Police and the National Police Chiefs Council's (NPCC) lead officer for children and young people, helped compile and is responsible for delivering.
"We know young people who have not had much to do with us have huge confidence in us and see us as someone who can help them," says Pinkney, a graduate in mathematics from Cambridge University. "But where young people have had interactions with us in crisis, we know that feels very different for them. Often, we are taking away their liberty or sticking them in a cell because we can't find anywhere else for them to go."
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