Stacey Rothwell, the Director of the Eastern Region Innovation Network (ERIN) has 25 years-experience as both an officer and civilian staff member. Stacey has completed her Masters’ studies at Cambridge in Police management and applied criminology and has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Stacey is a qualified project and programme manager and a qualified chartered manager. For the past two years she has worked on two randomised control trials within Kent Police, trialling first telephone and latterly rapid video response (RVR) to non-domestic and domestic abuse calls for service which have both been published in the Cambridge Journal of policing.
Stacey has most recently worked within her role as the Network Director for ERIN assisting further implementation of RVR across 5 of the Eastern Region forces, with support from the Home Office, Kent Police and the Police Chief Scientific Advisor. Stacey’s current role as the Director of ERIN means that she co-ordinates innovation across 7 police forces across the Eastern region of England. She has built a centre of excellence that focuses on the development, implementation and replication of evidence based research, best practice and new technologies. ERIN led by the 7 Chief Constables has already had great success sharing innovation on a regional basis using new ways of working and collaboration and the ERIN model has recently won the national IESE transformation award across all public sector bodies in the UK for efficiency and effectiveness.
Presentation
Rapid Video Response to Domestic Violence and Blueprint for Innovation, Eastern Region Innovation Network UK.
RVR – Can police increase victim satisfaction and improve efficiency by providing consenting domestic abuse victims, if their offenders are not present, with an immediate video link to a uniformed police officer, rather than waiting for face-to-face police attendance? Rapid video response (RVR) to these calls was an average of 656 times faster in responding to the victims (3 min) than the average BAU time for trying to deploy a police car (1969 min). RVR clearly produced higher victim satisfaction among female IPV victims (89% in the RVR group) compared to control victims (78% in the BAU group) (p=0.01). Arrest rates for suspects were 50% higher in the RVR group (24%) relative to the BAU group (16%), with three times more arrests during follow-up investigations on RVR cases. Trust and confidence in the police improved more for abuse victims receiving RVR than those receiving BAU.
ERIN – A new approach to collaboration and innovation. The Eastern Region Innovation Network is a centre of excellence that leads on innovation and research, working jointly to test and implement transformational change at pace, harnessing and developing the expertise and skills in existence from across the region. It promotes a progressive, forward-thinking culture, embracing generational diversity, tackling the policing challenges of tomorrow. The Network supports the work of the NPCC Science and Technology national strategy and brings together local police research and innovation leads to drive innovation across multiple forces using a blueprint process that is highly effective.