West Yorkshire Police have devised a process by which agencies, carers and young people can provide information about perpetrators. Intelligence is gathered and used in situations where there may be no evidence available or the victim is unwilling/unable to provide a police statement. This occurs in the vast majority of cases of sexual exploitation. Therefore, the opportunity to provide information as intelligence means that the police can build a sufficient picture over a period of time and act upon it. This could potentially interrupt and disrupt criminal activity where young people are being exploited.

What is Intelligence?

Child sexual exploitation intelligence includes details on;

• Suspects – names, nicknames, addresses, dates if birth and descriptions of suspects of CSE
  
  
• Vehicles – registration numbers, partial registration numbers, make and model, colour and distinguishing features or marks of vehicles used by suspects
  
  
• Telephones – details of phone numbers and mobile phones used by suspects and details of any text messages of phone calls made by them or to them
  
  
• Locations – details of locations where offences have taken place or suspects/victims frequent

• Offences – details of criminal offences that have not been recorded by the police either because the victim has not been identified or the victim denies them or refuses to cooperate with the police
  
  
• Date and times – that incidents occurred or suspects or vehicles seen
  
  
• Links – between suspects, vehicles, locations and young people identified at risk of CSE

The more detailed and precise the information is the better the quality of intelligence. The intelligence forms are not to be used for the following:

• To report a crime
  
  
• To pass information to the police about a crime that is already being investigated
  
  
• To raise a child protection concern

Produced by the Force Missing Person Coordinator July 2008

Genesis has been named as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC), which allows us to supply, check and submit the completed intelligence forms onto the West Yorkshire Police.

Intelligence can be reported via the External Agency Intelligence Forms from 3 perspectives:

1. Disclosure by a Young Person at Risk
2. 2Incident Witnessed by a Professional
3. Information from another Person

If you would like to complete an Intelligence form, please download the relevant form from opposite. Please forward the completed form to Genesis at Oxford Chambers, Oxford Place, Leeds, LS1 3AU.