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Articles by: Justin Srivastava

The @WeCops Debate: Public health approaches in policing – the learning so far

24th March 2021

Supt Justin Srivastava, Lancashire Constabulary

FEATURE: Criminal justice systems both across the UK and internationally are exploring the advantages of adopting public health approaches to policing; Superintendent Justin Srivastava of Lancashire Constabulary reports on last month’s @WeCops Twitter chat which focused on the issue, including progress to date and the challenges ahead.

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Supt Justin Srivastava, Lancashire Constabulary

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Supt Justin Srivastava has served for more than 26 years as a police officer, and currently works on the Lancashire Violence Reduction Unit; he is the VRU lead for the UK Home Office on trauma-informed practice within policing. Since 2017, he has led for the NPCC on the Police and Health Consensus, examining how policing and health/social care partners can improve their work together to address vulnerability demand and intervening at the earliest opportunity. In support of this Justin has published national documents for Public Health England and the College of Policing on public health approaches to policing, early intervention, trauma informed practice and police and health collaboration. In 2018, Justin was appointed the strategic lead for the National Police Wellbeing Service and was responsible for developing strategy and operational practice for the wellbeing of serving and retired police officers in England and Wales. Justin has served in uniform and detective roles and was involved in the development of the ‘Transforming Lives’ early intervention approach which has been nationally recognised by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) as good practice. He holds a degree in Social Policy and Criminology, and in 2017 he graduated with distinction from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) with an MSc course in Early Action and Professional Practice, specialising in Adverse Childhood Experiences, leadership within an integrated partnership environment and developing learning organisations.