OPERATION YEWTREE:GRIP AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

PETER SPINDLER

AIMTo explore the complexities of modern

police leadership with an analysis of Op Yewtree

Four key elements to success:

• Grip and good governance

• Stakeholder partnership and engagement

• Effective operational leadership

• Maintaining public and victim confidence

ORDER OF SERVICE• Background to Sir Jimmy Savile OBE

• The policing response and governance structures

• The stakeholders - partnership and engagement

• Behind the scenes of operational leadership

• Victim focus and maintaining public confidence

• The Yewtree Effect

SIR JIMMY SAVILE OBE1926 TO 2011 84 YEARS, OBE 1971, KNIGHTED BY QUEEN AND POPE IN 1990, INTERVIEWED UNDER CAUTION 2009

EXPOSURE• ITV Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile

Weds 3rd Oct 2012

• CEOP engage MPS and activate NSPCC Helpline

• Media feeding frenzy during build up

• MPS take national lead evening of Thurs 4th Oct

• Press conference at NSY Tues 9th Oct - 25 victims

• 19th Oct 200 victims, 25th Oct 450, 11th Dec 589

SCALE OF OFFENDING

• 450 Victims

• 214 Substantive crimes recorded

• 34 Rapes

• 5 decades of offending

• 73% children or young people

• 82% female

Recorded Crimes

THE POLICING RESPONSE

• A fragmented policing landscape

• Victim focussed, multi-agency response required

• Joint MPS/NSPCC Gold Group established with CPS and CEOP

• Complex stakeholder forum established

• NSPCC/NAPAC helplines mobilised

• Proportionate response underpinned by effective communications strategy

GOLD GROUP• Critical incident declared

• Set the strategy - clear on desired outcomes

• Allocate roles and responsibilities

• Secure resources

• Set operational parameters

• Approve media strategy

• Identify and manage risk and issues

STAKEHOLDER GROUP• Inclusion - trust and transparency

• BBC lawyers and head of internal investigations

• NAPAC

• Home Office, DoH, Cabinet Office, DCMS

• Dame Janet Smith review

• Kate Lampard QC oversight review

OPERATIONAL LEADERSHIP

• Managing up - Leading down

• Visible, active leadership - 24/7 responsibility

• National talking head

• Agency and force liaison

• Attention to detail - focus, clarity of mission

• Values based leadership

VICTIM FOCUS/PUBLIC CONFIDENCE

• SAVILE - PREDATORY SEX OFFENDER

• UNCREDIBLES - POWER VS VULNERABILITY

• HISTORIC? - NON RECENT ABUSE/CSE

• WATERSHED MOMENT

• EMPOWERMENT THROUGH NUMBERS

• “GROOMED THE NATION”

• GIVING VICTIMS A VOICE - SOCIAL JUSTICE

Giving Victims a Voice

• Hundreds of calls• We moved fast - together• Partnership (including in public)

• Can do approach• Nature of sexual abuse• Ability to scale up• Emotional impact on staff

Key Partnership Outcomes• Taking children seriously / taking allegations seriously• Increased confidence of victims• Significant increases in the reporting of concerns *• Better understanding of need to support victims (eg

NAPAC/NSPCC collaboration)

• Better understanding by organisations of their responsibilities to protect children

* 800 extra children protected in Oct/Nov 2012 alone due to increase in calls to NSPCC

“YEWTREE EFFECT”• 87% INCREASE IN REPORTS OF RAPE

• 33% INCREASE IN CALLS TO NSPCC HELPLINE

• 12 MORE CALL HANDLERS RECRUITED

• 262 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS ONGOING

• KATE LAMPARD QC REVIEW 44 HEALTH TRUSTS

• DPP REVISED GUIDANCE ON CREDABILITY TEST

• 100% CONVICTION RATE 43 YEARS IMPRISONMENT

• MPS 75 NON-RECENT ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS

• HMIC - “MISTAKES WERE MADE”

• HYDRANT/GODDARD

• 70 REFFERALS TO IPCC

• GLOBAL BRAND, EMBEDDED IN NATIONAL PSYCHE

THE END OF THE BEGINNING

• 30,000 NEW VICTIMS TO GODDARD INQUIRY

• DAME JANET SMITH REVIEW INTO BBC

• OPERATION HYDRANT:

2000 SUSPECTS

670 INSTITUTIONS NAMED

262 INVESTIGATIONS ONGOING

NSPCC DECEMBER 2012

QUESTIONS AND DEBATE