The Thin Blue Mind: Trauma Informed Policing

The Lancashire Violence Reduction Network are a team of specialists from health, education, police, youth offending, probation, local government and social care who are working together to share best practices and connect services to tackle violent crime and its underlying causes.We talk to Detective Chief Superintendent Sue Clarke who is leading Lancashire Constabulary's initiative to tackle crime through a trauma informed approach. Joining Sue is Rose Latham and Daniel Wolstencroft, who through their lived experiences formed Empower the Invisible Project. Borne from the ideas of people with lived experience of childhood sexual abuse who wanted to change the lack of support and also the lack of understanding from some professionals about how trauma in childhood in particular childhood sexual abuse impacts on the life of those affected.