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New Generation Policing
Our partnerships with police services and Police and Crime Commissioners aims to develop mainstream policing approaches that respond to young adults’ needs (driven by experiences of poverty, trauma, and racism) and prevent them from being caught in the revolving door.
Our work is driven forward in the following trailblazers sites: Cleveland, Durham, Humberside, Leicestershire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and West Midlands.
A campaign for change - divert young adults into support
Our New Generation Campaigners, young adults with lived experience, are leading a campaign to reduce the arrest of vulnerable young adults, and are calling for the police to divert them into support instead.
The campaign has four key asks:
- Identify: Police need training to identify vulnerabilities, especially trauma.
- Involve: The police must involve young adults in the design of diversion services.
- Invest: Government & Police and Crime Commissioners must invest more in diversion services.
- Inform: Police need to record data on who is being diverted.
You can support our campaign for a new approach to policing young adults. Please get in touch with Burcu Borysik to find out more.
Police can make their own commitment to young adults here.
Young adults can join our New Generation Campaigners by contacting Sean Mullen.
Leadership and Practice Exchange
We are running a series of interactive and tailored events that foster peer-to-peer learning, knowledge and practice exchange among policing professionals, third sector organisations and people with lived experience. The events are designed to support OPCCs and police services to collaborate and innovate.
As part of this, we have set up a Knowledge Exchange Network with The Police Foundation which brings together police Inspectors and Chief Inspectors from across England and Wales to co-create new and better ways of policing young adults aged 18-25. Read about our first meeting in Decemeber 2020 here.
For more information contact Burcu Borysik.

Knowledge Exchange Network - January 2021
This meeting looked at Violence Reduction Units (VRUs). Set up in response to rising levels of violent crime, the Units identified adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), deprivation, school exclusions and other factors as key drivers of serious violence, with some focusing on the under-25 cohort.

Knowledge Exchange Network - December 2020
Read about our first Knowledge Exchange Network Event held in December 2020.
Our supporters
We want to thank our funders, the Barrow Cadbury Trust, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, and the Lloyds Bank Foundation for making this happen. Thanks also to our diverse and knowledgeable steering group members: HMI Wendy Williams (HMICFRS), Chief Constable Mark Collins (Dyfed-Powys Police), Chief Constable Andrew Rhodes (Lancashire Constabulary), Susannah Hancock (APCC), Prof. Kieran McCartan (University of West of England), Prof. Huw Williams (University of Exeter), Dr Eamonn O’Moore (Public Health England), Neena Samota (St Mary’s University), and Myron Rogers (Chair of Lankelly Chase Foundation).

Police commitment to young adults
A police commitment to young adults.

New Generation Campaign
Our New Generation Campaigners are leading a campaign to reduce the arrest of vulnerable young adults, and are calling for the police to divert them into support instead. Sign up to support their call to action.
Understand Us
A survey exploring young adults’ views and experiences of policing

Knowledge Exchange Network - January 2021
This meeting looked at Violence Reduction Units (VRUs). Set up in response to rising levels of violent crime, the Units identified adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), deprivation, school exclusions and other factors as key drivers of serious violence, with some focusing on the under-25 cohort.

Knowledge Exchange Network - December 2020
Read about our first Knowledge Exchange Network Event held in December 2020.

Presentation for the launch of LEAD UK
Presentation from LEAD about the programme and how it works.

Police-led diversion – the LEAD approach
Revolving Doors Agency is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Public Defenders Association to promote a new approach to police-led diversion that we believe can better prevent the revolving door of crisis and crime.

Briefing for the launch of LEAD UK
Revolving Doors Agency and Public Defenders Association (the US-based penal reform charity) launches Let Everyone Advance with Dignity (LEAD), a police-led diversion approach for young adults (18-25) who are at risk of becoming trapped in the revolving door of crime and crisis.

A fresh focus for PCCs: Trauma, poverty and rehabilitation
Today, Revolving Doors publishes a review of strategies and activities led or supported by Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to address the impact of trauma and poverty among people who are in, or at risk of entering, the revolving door.

Letter: Once in a generation opportunity to prevent a lifetime of crisis and crime
We have a once in a generation opportunity to prevent the cycle of crisis and crime. Our strong coalition, led by Revolving Doors Agency and our Patron Lord Patel of Bradford, are committing to action that prevents young adults being pulled into the cycle of crime and crisis and diverting them away, into a better life.
PCCs and police services take action to prevent a lifetime of crisis and crime
Today, a strong coalition of Police and Crime Commissioners, police services and charities led by Revolving Doors Agency are calling on action to prevent young adults being pulled into the cycle of crime and crisis.

Racial bias is pulling Black young adults into an avoidable cycle of crisis and crime
Our analysis of government data that shows Black young adults (18-24) are significantly more likely to be dragged into the criminal justice system for relatively low-level and non-violent offences, such as theft or minor drug offences. Rather than being given the support they need, they are swept away into our criminal justice system.

Police and Crime Plan Review
Our review of all Police and Crime Plans across England and Wales.

PCC Spotlight 1
Young Adults (18-24) in contact with the police (2015)

PCC Spotlight 2
Mental Health (2015)

PCC Spotlight 3
Women in contact with the criminal justice system (2015)

PCC Spotlight 4
Early intervention and prevention (2015)
