Personal Safety Schools Involvement Unit Youth Crime Reduction Office

What is Personal Safety ? Looking after yourself Avoiding trouble Planning for danger

When might I be in danger ? Out alone (especially at night) Home alone / Baby sitting On public transport Social evenings out Going abroad What affects your thinking? Drink or drugs affect judgement Meeting people from internet chat rooms

Home Alone/Baby sitting If someone calls - Don’t say you are alone. Don’t open door to strangers, talk through window or door. Have your parents check out people who want you to work for them.

Going Places On the bus/tube/train - sit near driver or family groups. Be discrete with mobile phones etc. Try to travel with people you know. Use a pre booked minicab or licensed cab.

Figures show that the majority of theft on school age children are for mobile phones Keep yours safe *#06# MARK IT! RECORD SERIAL No. BE DISCRETE IN PUBLIC *#06#

Walking home Plan your route Walk where it’s safe (near people) If you are followed, find someone you can trust(shop, family house, mixed group of people ) Walk briskly Look confident

Car following you? Walk against the flow of traffic Keep away from car doors If you are followed go where people are Keep out of unlit alleys and streets If someone tries to force you into a car, do everything you can to prevent this.

Man in court over 1968 murder 65-year-old Brian Field was jailed for life at the Old Bailey after he admitted strangling to death schoolboy Roy Tutill in The body of the Kingston Grammar School pupil was found three days after he disappeared on 23 April, 1968, while hitch-hiking home from school. It was discovered in woods in Surrey. "When you take into account his previous criminal history, it leaves you in no doubt what a danger he poses to society and in particular, to young boys." Monday, 26 February, 2001 Field, a loner with previous convictions for attacking boys, is believed by detectives to have been one of Britain's most dangerous paedophiles. He was trapped only after a tiny speck of DNA was matched to him when he was stopped by police for drink-driving in the Midlands.

Going Abroad Dress down. See what other people wear! Stay with friends Tell people what your plans are Take the best advice before you go anywhere you’re not sure about

P.L.A.N. P is for Prepare L is for Look confident and Let someone know where you are. A is for Avoid risks and be Aware of what’s going on around you. N is for Never assume it’s safe and for Not losing control of the situation Gone with… Be back at 8 Phone No.

Safe Surfing Schools Involvement Unit Youth Crime Reduction Office

General Computer Use Only use Computers for agreed purposes Keep to School agreements. Keep your passwords secret. Keep your messages civil.

s s are stored by service providers. They can be traced. If racist or threatening… there may be Offences. Service providers have a duty to help police. I think you are a…

Safe Surfing NEVER EVER give:- Your last name Address Phone number or School details… … on line.

Safe Surfing NEVER EVER:- Meet someone offline. You don’t know who they are! a Child or an Adult ? Tell someone if you don’t like anything online.

Web 'grooming' sentences upped. Jail terms for paedophiles convicted of the "grooming" of children will be a maximum of ten years - after MPs agreed a radical shake- up of sex crime laws which date back to Victorian times. Ministers have decided to increase the maximum sentence from seven years to ten years, after a series of high profile cases BBC News 04/11/2003

Child expert admits abusing girl A former child psychiatrist has been jailed for four years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl after grooming her on the internet. The court heard Morrell posed as a 15-year-old boy to meet the girl in an internet chatroom.They exchanged several e- mails during the following month Then Morrell drove from his home in London to a campsite in Snowdonia. He told the girl he was 32 before sexually assaulting her.The following month the married father-of- two again drove to the campsite and sexually assaulted the girl once more, before immediately collapsing the tent and driving home. He was struck off by the General Medical Council in April for looking at child pornography on the internet “You are a sexual predator of young girls, with a significant level of obsessive behaviour which you have been unable or unwilling to control.” Judge Merfyn Hughes QC Friday, 1 April, 2005

Keep Safe

Safe Surfing Never give your last name, address, phone number or school details online. Tell someone if you don’t like anything online. Never meet someone offline. You don’t know who they are!

Clubbing and Pubbing Always guard your drink. Don’t return and have an unattended drink Know your own drink tolerance level. If your drink seems strange throw it. Look out for your friends G.H.B Stranger Danger ! Never trust someone you have only recently met

Clubbing and Pubbing If you start to feel really drunk when you shouldn’t, turn to a trusted friend. Statistics show Drug rape is most often committed by people you have recently met. These people gain your trust first! Consider carefully whether you should leave with someone you have just met.

1.Unsafe on bus –Do go to driver –move away from danger- Don’t get off earlier. 2.Do Travel or walk with friends. 3.Do go straight to or from destination- Don’t take short cuts. 4.Do know safe places you can go for help – Shops or friend’s house etc. 5.Do have a small amount of money for phone / bus. 6.Don’t talk to people you’re not sure about – Walk quickly away. 7.Do Tell an adult you trust any problems. Recap Do’s & Don’t ‘s

DO Let someone know you are home Check at the door to see if all is OK Lock up when inside Have a list of useful telephone numbers Say Mum etc unable to come to phone. DON’T Give your name or phone number Say you are on your own Answer the door THINK SAFE - STAY SAFE Recap on Home Alone

Clubbing and Pubbing DRUG RAPE can happen to men as well as women! Remember when someone is drugged they are not in control DRUG RAPE TRUST