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Police Scotland Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU)

SVRU pursues a holistic yet innovative public health approach to violence based on the following principles:
Public health is about looking after the health, well-being and safety of entire populations. Not just you, or your family, or your community but a whole country. To achieve this, we need to tackle not only disease but violence too. In 1996 the 49th World Health Assembly declared violence to be a “major and growing public health problem across the world”.
Public health isn’t just about medicine, it draws on a broad range of knowledge from epidemiology and sociology to criminology, education and economics. For public health to work it’s crucial that as many people, and organisations, from across society work together. Everyone from teachers and doctors to prison officers and scientists. Preventing violence is NOT just the job of the police. We all have a role to play.
It is a science-based four-step process:

What’s the problem?
What are the causes?
What works and for whom?
Scale it up!

The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention Guide

Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA)

Global status report on violence prevention 2014
Jointly published by WHO, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Let’s treat violence like a contagious disease
Dr. Gary Slutkin spent a decade fighting tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS epidemics in Africa. When he returned to the US, he thought he'd escape brutal epidemic deaths. But he began to look more carefully at gun violence -- whose spread follows the same pattern as an infectious disease. His conclusion: We've reversed the impact of so many diseases, says Slutkin, and we can do the same with violence. A mind-flipping look at a problem that too many communities have accepted as a given.
TED Talk April 2013 (13:55)

Resources

A Brief Guide to ACES and the Tools to Help
ACES: Adverse Childhood Experiences – understanding and improving our response (image)
Violence is Preventable, Not Inevitable The story and impact of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit
Scottish Violence Reduction Unit 10 Year Strategic Plan
Christie Commission on the future delivery of public services
Report on the future delivery of public services by the commission chaired by Dr Campbell Christie. Published on 29 June 2011.
Renewing Scotland's public services: priorities for reform in response to the Christie Commission
The Government's response to the Christie commission on the future delivery of public services. Published on 21 September 2011.
Third Sector
The third sector, which includes charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups, delivers essential services, helps to improve people's wellbeing and contributes to economic growth. It plays a vital role in supporting communities at a local level.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organizations (SCVO) Evidence Library

What Works to Prevent Youth Violence: A Summary of the Evidence
Dr Kirsten Russell, Scottish Violence Reduction Unit In collaboration with Justice Analytical Services (Feb 2021)

Key Findings

A Public Health Approach to Policing July 1, 2021

What Works to Prevent Youth Violence - A New Report Feb 16, 2021

Navigator is a service that aims to support people away from violence. The service has been operating in the Emergency Department of Glasgow Royal Infirmary since December 2015. The Navigators connect patients in the ED and then continue to work with them in the community towards more positive outcomes whatever those may be. Their interventions are tailored to the individual and their connection is on a very human level.

Navigator Infographic

Navigator Scotland: 6 months on

Navigator: A Tale of Two Cities 12 months of Navigator in Glasgow Royal Infirmary: 6 months of Navigator in Royal Infirmary Edinburgh

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Self Referral Sessions

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Case Management

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Gang Engagement

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Intelligence and Analysis

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Third Quarter Report (May 2010)

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) 6-Month Report (Progress Report May 2009)

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Year 1 Report

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) Year 2 Report

Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) A View of CIRV