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Let’s get it rightMonitoring results should be used as a basis for honestAll agencies should support minority group staffdiscussion with local communities, perhaps throughassociations.the new local crime prevention partnerships.All agencies must give priority and resources toArea Criminal Justice Liaison Committees shouldtraining for all staff, which is directly related topromote co-ordinated local systems and considerworking practices and which is monitored, evaluatedpolicy and practice implications of the results.and supported in the working situation.The new youth justice provisions (Crime and DisorderAct 1998) must be subject to monitoring from theoutset.EMPLOYMENT AND TRAININGCHAPTER 5At local level, agencies should consider holding interagencytraining.Local community groups must be involved in theplanning and delivery of training.Private companies holding contracts for court escortsand security and for management of prisons should beheld to the same standards in terms of employment,promotion and training practices as state agencies.A Judicial Appointments Commission should beestablished to examine ways to produce more speedilya diverse judiciary and to play a part in theappointment procedure itself.SUSPECTS AND DEFENDANTSCHAPTER 6Continuing efforts should be made to encourage moreapplicants for the magistracy from minoritycommunities.The Bar Council and Law Society should activelypromote and enforce their equal opportunity policies.Police services must implement the Government’sAction Plan in response to the Stephen LawrenceInquiry Report recommendations.The Bar Council should ensure barristers co-operatewith the CPS monitoring of its work.Police services must take action on ‘Winning theRace’ and ‘Winning the Race Revisited’.The Prison Service should develop a nationalrecruitment programme to supplement localrecruitment and ensure a more diverse workforce in allestablishments, including at senior levels.The CPS and probation services should examinepromotion systems to ensure they are accessible to alland consider positive action where necessary.Police forces should give new priority to meeting thenew government recruitment and retention targets, andexamine promotion procedures to ensure they areaccessible to all.All agencies should consider adopting targets forrecruitment, retention and promotion of staff fromracial minorities, on similar lines to those set by theHome Secretary for the police.Police services must work with Crime and DisorderAct partnerships to involve local minoritycommunities in developing crime reduction strategies.Police services must use s95 informationconstructively to measure and improve local services.The legal professions must promote their race equalitypolicies and practices more forcefully and play agreater role in the work of Area Criminal JusticeLiaison Committees.Civil courts must be alert to potential discriminatoryimpact of parenting or anti-social behaviour orders.Training and ethnic monitoring must be introduced toensure the new immigration and asylum procedures donot have a discriminatory impact on black and Asianasylum seekers.60
RACE AND JUSTICE 2000CHAPTER 10 SUMMARY OF ACTION POINTSAFTER SENTENCE: PRISON ANDPROBATION SERVICESCHAPTER 7Probation services must ensure community penaltiessuitable for minority defendants are provided andrecommended to courts, and that their programmesmeet the needs of a diverse population.Ethnic monitoring of the new Crime and Disorder Actyouth justice provisions must be used locally to ensurefairness of application to all young people.Probation services must support community-basedgroups which work with offenders.Fairness, justice and safety in prisons must be givenurgent priority, with more time and resources allocatedfor the work at local level.Conditions for immigration detainees should reflecttheir unconvicted status and cater for the diverse rangeof people held in detention centres and prisons.Race relations in private prisons must be subject tosame quality control as in the state system.The MPS model of lay involvement via advisorypanels should be adopted by all police forces.The ACOP/MPS action guide to race and hate crimeshould be supported by training and disseminated toall police forces.Priority must be given to work with local communitiesto encourage more reporting of racially motivatedcrimes. This might be done through local authorities,community police consultative groups, race equalitycouncils and other community-based organisations.Victim Support groups should assist the police withthis work. The police should hold special openconsultation meetings to hear at first hand communityperceptions of the problem and ideas for solutions.Probation services should ensure they provideprogrammes for work with racially motivatedoffenders, drawing on ‘From Murmur to Murder’.Victim Support should ensure that committees, staffand volunteers are representative of the communitiesthey serve.Victim Support should monitor responses to raciallymotivated crime.The Chief Inspector of Prisons should conduct athematic review of race relations in prisons.The Government must review the provisions andapplication of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act1974 to ensure it is not discriminatory in its impact.VICTIMS OF CRIMECHAPTER 8Implementing the recommendations of the StephenLawrence Inquiry Report must be a priority for allagencies.Crime and Disorder Act: local crime audits and policeand local authority crime prevention partnerships musttackle all crimes against minority communities,developing action plans to tackle them in closeconsultation with local people.61
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