Management Information Sheet
Guidance on Managing Persons believed to be Vulnerable to Radicalisation or Influenced by Extremism
A new PREVENT Referral process has been launched by Norfolk Constabulary to identify and support individuals Vulnerable to Radicalisation.
What is PREVENT?
PREVENT forms one of the four components that make up the Government’s National Counter-terrorism Strategy, CONTEST. Its aim is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism.
The police service and its partner agencies have an integral role to play working with local communities to support people who are vulnerable to being drawn into criminal activity. This could be in relation to drugs, knife crime, guns and gangs or involvement in violent extremism.
Prevent is a challenging and complex area that requires a whole ‘community approach’ between national and local organisations and embraces the experiences, energy and ideas of our local communities, as well as police officers and staff.
The PREVENT strategy was updated in 2011 and now encompasses all forms of extremism. There are three objectives:
PREVENT deals with all forms terrorism and not just with Al Qa’ida and therefore includes Domestic Extremism. This term is generally used to describe the activity of individuals or groups carrying out acts of direct action to further their protest campaign. At times this falls outside the normal democratic process and into criminality.
The PREVENT (Vulnerable to Radicalisation) procedures attached will provide you with further guidance about indicators of concern and the steps to take if you are concerned about an individual who may be at risk of being adversely influenced or radicalised.
What is PREVENT?
PREVENT forms one of the four components that make up the Government’s National Counter-terrorism Strategy, CONTEST. Its aim is to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism.
The police service and its partner agencies have an integral role to play working with local communities to support people who are vulnerable to being drawn into criminal activity. This could be in relation to drugs, knife crime, guns and gangs or involvement in violent extremism.
Prevent is a challenging and complex area that requires a whole ‘community approach’ between national and local organisations and embraces the experiences, energy and ideas of our local communities, as well as police officers and staff.
The PREVENT strategy was updated in 2011 and now encompasses all forms of extremism. There are three objectives:
| 1. | To respond to the ideological challenge of terrorism and the threat from those who promote it. All groups have an ideology, promoting that ideology facilitates radicalisation and recruitment. Challenging ideology and disrupting the ability to promote it is a fundamental part of PREVENT. |
| 2. | To prevent people from being drawn into terrorism/extremism and ensure that they are given appropriate advice and support. Radicalisation is usually a process not an event and it is possible to intervene to prevent vulnerable people being drawn into this type of activity. |
| 3. | To work with sectors and institutions where there are risks of radicalisation that we need to address. Priority areas include education, faith, health, criminal justice and charities. |
PREVENT deals with all forms terrorism and not just with Al Qa’ida and therefore includes Domestic Extremism. This term is generally used to describe the activity of individuals or groups carrying out acts of direct action to further their protest campaign. At times this falls outside the normal democratic process and into criminality.
The PREVENT (Vulnerable to Radicalisation) procedures attached will provide you with further guidance about indicators of concern and the steps to take if you are concerned about an individual who may be at risk of being adversely influenced or radicalised.