Cardiff Violence Prevention Programme (CVPP)

Axios
Policing

Solution types
Management by Results

Problems addressed

Crime and delinquency (multiple types)

Interpersonal violence or injuries

Effectiveness

Promising

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Life periods served

Adults (18 to 59 years)

Where the program was applied

Ambulatory - Health service centers

Country of application

United Kingdom

Description

This is a violence prevention program that carries out cross-sector work between emergency healthcare services and the police. The objective is to share data on violent incidents registered in the healthcare industry by transmitting information to the police.
The inclusion of emergency services is believed to improve violence prevention, as those services can share anonymous electronic data on the exact location, use of weapons, aggressors, and the day and time an act of violence occurs, information that is not always known to the police.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation found that the program resulted in a significant reduction in violence-related hospital admissions. Rates fell from 7 to 5 per month in a population of 100,000, compared to an increase from 5 to 8 per month in comparison cities. The average rate of police-recorded injuries increased from 54 to 82 per month per 100,000 inhabitants in Cardiff, compared to an increase from 54 to 114 in the comparison cities. However, there was a significant increase in the recording of less serious assaults in Cardiff when compared to other cities [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Florence, C., Shepherd, J., Brennan, I. & Simon, T. (2011). Effectiveness of anonymised information sharing and use in health service, police, and local government partnership for preventing violence related injury: Experimental study and time series analysis. BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 342, d3313. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d3313

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