There is a tension between what the police have to do for the communities they serve – preventing people coming to harm and upholding the law – and what they’d like to be doing in terms of public outreach. One of the areas where this tension is felt keenly is the police’s work with children within schools.
There are 43 separate police services working across England and Wales and many are signed up to the Safer Schools Partnership policy which provides best practice guidance for the police and schools to work together. In practice, it is up to chief constables to decide how police officers’ time is best spent, and some areas have no Safer Schools Partnerships at all. In others, dedicated police officers are embedded within schools, working to protect pupils and intervene early to prevent youth offending.
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