Norfolk PACT (Partners Against Crime Taskforce), is launching a new partnership initiative to help young people across the county understand the consequences of choosing a life of crime. Designed for 11 to 13 year olds, No Crime - Get a Life! aims to raise awareness of the criminal justice process while also highlighting the effects of crime on both offender and victim, and putting across the important message that young people make choices in life that steer them either towards or away from a life of crime. No Crime – Get a Life! uses a range of agencies involved in the criminal justice process including the Criminal Justice Board; Her Majesty’s Courts; the Police; Her Majesty’s Prison Service; the Youth Offending Team and Victim Support. Multi-agency teams will go into the county’s secondary schools to deliver a dynamic workshop-based programme. Project Coordinator, Laurence Wild, said: “The programme takes a minimum of a half day and gives the young people the opportunity to meet face to face with representatives of each of the agencies to find out what part they play in the criminal justice process. “During the workshop sessions they discuss crime and anti-social behaviour, how to avoid getting involved in it, what happens to you if you do get involved with it, what it feels like to be a victim of it, and how to avoid being a victim of it, from the perspective of each of the agencies in turn.” This programme originated in South Wales and is now part of the All Wales Police Schools Liaison Programme, operating across the whole of Wales. Initial plans to pilot the project in Norfolk are now in place, with its first delivery due to take place in Acle High School today. It is planned that the project will then be rolled out across Norfolk and made available to all secondary schools. Norfolk PACT would like to thank Mr Jeff O’Reilly of Tredegar Comprehensive School in Gwent for permission to use the film “Kiddo” in this project and the Gwent Police Authority for their inspirational development of this project in South Wales. If you would like to find out more about this project, visit www.norfolkpact.co.uk, or contact Laurence Wild at Norfolk PACT, Jubilee House, Falconers Chase, Wymondham, Norfolk NR18 OWW. Tel 01953 424727
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