Tour of Lincolnshire's new youth knife crime educational experience The Happening

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Sgt Mel Standbrook takes us on a tour of the new anti-knife crime educational experience for Lincolnshire's young people, The Happening...

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00:00 Okay, so this will be the entrance to our new happening knife crime initiative that

00:07 Lincolnshire Police are kind of creating for young people across Lincolnshire, which is

00:11 a fully immersive education experience. So the young people will come through this door

00:14 and they will go into kind of a cell area initially, so where we'll be able to watch

00:21 kind of a monologue of a young person who has been through the criminal justice system

00:25 and they will be talking about their kind of experience with knife crime but also their

00:30 experiences kind of in prison and what they hope their life is going to be like afterwards

00:35 and the challenges they've faced. So then the young people, we will kind of ask them

00:40 to think about what that would mean to them, so really kind of challenge their knowledge

00:45 around knife crime and what that looks like and how that young person that they've just

00:50 watched on the video could have done something slightly different. So this will be kind of

00:56 the education hub, so the young people will start kind of their journey within the hub

01:00 but then what we will do is we will come back into here for kind of exercises later on within

01:06 the initiative or it's a breakout space as well, so to do further kind of work. This

01:12 currently is an empty space, so this will be a gallery area, so we're working with

01:17 Lincoln Prison around kind of creating artwork for young people around kind of what life

01:23 was like before, what life is like in prison and then hopes and aspirations for the future

01:28 for the young people that are kind of currently in Lincoln Prison but are hoping to be released.

01:33 So they are going to create that within kind of artwork which will be in place for the

01:37 young people to be able to kind of discuss when they kind of come to the centre post-January.

01:43 So the next room is called the Happening, so it's where we kind of got the name from

01:49 but within here young people will be asked to kind of look at their, kind of how a community

01:54 would be affected, so victim and offender and how that would change that young person's

02:01 life and also their family's worlds and their community's worlds and we kind of really

02:06 wanted to capture what social media, so what social media looks like for young people,

02:10 kind of where they're reading the narrative in relation to knife crime and then we've

02:15 had some really good feedback from young people that said they wanted a bed, so that bedroom

02:20 to that kind of empty bed kind of symptom, so you know I'm sat reading kind of social

02:25 media within my bed but also you know it could be if something happens to that young person

02:31 you know that kind of empty bed, so and then it could happen to everybody.

02:39 So this is kind of the urban underground area, so this is something that we're really proud

02:43 of, so we've worked with Image School, so James at Image School has kind of really captured

02:48 those really positive words, so words that can really make a difference to young people,

02:52 so that's support, relationships, family, kind of those you know resilience and your

02:57 peers who can really make a change in your life if you are kind of involved in knife

03:03 crime or knife enabled crime or serious violence or just you know even kind of those young

03:09 people that aren't involved in crime, so you know the challenges that they're facing

03:13 in their world, so kind of the words and the language that we need to kind of capture and

03:18 speak about.

03:22 So when you go in here this is kind of captured within negative statements, so young people

03:27 we've had loads of young people who have really got involved with us around kind of

03:32 capturing the evidence and capturing the statements for us to be able to utilise in the centre.

03:36 It was really important for us to use child's voice whilst building this centre, rather

03:41 than just using that kind of policing view or that adult view, we really wanted to kind

03:46 of capture what was right, so it is about kind of those you know those kind of negative

03:51 connotations and then in these two rooms we will look at the why young people carry knife

03:57 and what else could they do instead of getting involved in violence.

04:02 So the artwork is to follow in this room but this will be a what would be a standard interview

04:08 room, kind of in a police centre, police station, so we will be kind of capturing that why,

04:18 so young people will be able to answer questions and actually listen to what young people have

04:24 to say, so that is the reason why they carry a knife, so that they felt pressured, that

04:28 they felt kind of powerless, that they felt kind of that they had no choice or that they

04:33 were getting kind of like that real pressure from people around them in their worlds.

04:38 And so Lincoln College are creating an amazing audio piece of work around you know why young

04:45 people carry knives, so the young people will come into this space and get completely and

04:50 utterly like that audio senses in this space to be able to listen to and then have a conversation

04:55 around it.

04:56 And then again, so this is the what if, so what young people can do instead of kind of

05:02 getting involved in crime, so we know that diversion is massive when we're talking about

05:06 young people getting involved in crime and kind of moving them away from crime, so it

05:11 is about kind of like making them, I am going to read off the board, but like taking that

05:17 knife and the madness, you know like what jobs could they do, you know could they change

05:21 their friendship groups, could they kind of pick up hobbies, could they pick up experiences

05:25 that will alter their thinking.

05:27 So diversion work is really, really important when we're kind of looking at young people,

05:32 so you know this room will be a place where they can be signposted to different diversionary

05:37 experiences as well, so kind of groups that are helping young people within Lincolnshire

05:41 that they can engage with, so we are working with loads of different partners to get the

05:45 right information in this room where young people can kind of pick it up and take it

05:49 away to then really make that change.

05:52 Then we go back into the urban underground kind of area, you know we are trying to make

05:59 it really kind of visually amazing for young people, so every space creates a conversation.

06:07 So this space is called our bus stop, so this will be a bus stop area where young people

06:13 will kind of come in here and they will watch a video within the digital screen.

06:18 This video will, we've worked with lives, which will show a young person being involved

06:25 at a bus stop and you know an incident happens with a knife and somebody is injured, so and

06:33 they are able to kind of watch what will happen, so if somebody is injured you've got somebody

06:38 ringing the ambulance, the impact in this room is about how can we make a difference

06:43 for myself or my best friend if something was to happen to us in the public area, in

06:48 the public space.

06:49 So this is kind of what we wanted to target in this area, what do they need to do, they

06:53 need to ring the ambulance, you know they need to kind of start putting something on

06:56 the wound, you know to try and keep that person alive before the ambulance gets here.

07:01 So it was really important for us kind of in this space to kind of create that kind

07:05 of experience.

07:07 So they would then kind of move on to what we call the response room, so we have kind

07:13 of medical information kind of on that back wall but it is those snippets of information

07:17 that young people really need to kind of grab.

07:19 So the young people in this space will hear an audio, so depending on their age will depend

07:24 on the audio content, so and then all young people will engage in a CPR activity in here,

07:30 so kind of speak about CPR, they will get a chance to kind of actively do CPR on kind

07:37 of one of the dummies and then have a real conversation around kind of what they have

07:41 witnessed in the bus stop and then how we can make a change.

07:44 The audio will show for the older young people that kind of victim arriving at hospital and

07:52 kind of the sounds and thinking that would happen when that young person arrives at the

07:56 hospital, so they will be able to fully be immersed within that kind of experience.

08:00 So then one of our final rooms kind of within the experience is the to the point room, so

08:14 this kind of captures lore, so we will kind of be challenging questions, so asking questions

08:20 that young people have identified to us within our educational sessions around what they

08:25 need to know and what they, I'm going to say most interest them, but actually what will

08:30 make the most impact is probably the best way to describe that.

08:34 So if you have a look at here, the young people will be able to kind of have a look at facts

08:39 and figures, so for example this one is you are more likely to be hurt or injured if you

08:44 carry a knife, so and again it's that four years in prison if you carry a knife, even

08:49 if you don't intend to use it.

08:51 So we've picked up loads of information and facts where young people can kind of go through,

08:56 it's tactile, it's usable and they can write in their workbook the facts that they kind

09:00 of pick up within this room.

09:02 This room the artwork is still to follow, but in here we're going to really target that

09:10 kind of who is responsible for knife crime, so you know is it kind of the police, is it

09:16 the government, is it yourself, and you know there is an activity that the young people

09:20 will engage in to actually work out what that looks like.

09:23 And then we're nearly back to the education hub now, so the young people will come into

09:34 kind of, this is the reset space, so if young people need a bit of time out or they kind

09:38 of need some breathing space while they're going through the experience, then they can

09:42 sit here and artwork is to follow, but we are hoping that they can just have a breather

09:47 with their teacher or whoever has come with them on the experience, just to have a bit

09:51 of a think and just to kind of come away from the rooms.

09:54 It was really important that we had that space for young people to be able to have a break

09:59 from the experience because the experience is so immersive when we look at kind of the

10:04 audio and the video content, it was important that young people could have a break from

10:08 that if they needed to.

10:09 And then we have an impact wall, so we are hoping kind of over time that young people

10:14 will be able to write exactly what they thought of the experience, which will go on this wall

10:20 that young people can write on.

10:21 write them.

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