LEPH2012 Conference Program

Location:
The Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Welcome to country

Introductions

A Wurundjeri Elder

The Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Professor Graham Brown AM, Director, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne

Warwick Jones, Director, Australian Institute of Police Management

• Assoc Professor Stuart Thomas, Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science (CFBS), Monash University: The police approach style in the management of people with acute psychiatric crisis
• Dr Dani Kesic, CFBS: Police management of suicide and alternative resolution strategies
• Superintendent Mick Williams, Victoria Police: Policy and training around mental illness
• Sergeant Tim Hoban, Victoria Police: Mental health e-learning package

Location:
The Russell Love Theatrette

Session Conveners:
Resourcing Health and Education in the Sex Industry (RhED) and the Nossal Institute for Global Health

Session objective:
To explore the ways police can best support public health programs for sex workers in a criminalised environment

Chair: Jelena Popovic, Deputy Chief Magistrate, Victoria

Presenters:

• Sergeant David Morrow,
  Sex worker Liaison Officer,
  St Kilda Police Station
• Senior Sergeant Brad Daly,
  St Kilda Police Station
• Emily Gillespie,
  Arrest Referral Program
  RhED
• Sally Boothby,
  Arrest Referral Program
  RhED
• Catriona Hodgson, Education and Support Worker
  RhED
• Vanda Hamilton,
  Drug Outreach lawyer
  St Kilda Legal Service

Location:
The J. H. Mitchell Theatre

Session Conveners:
Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), Monash Injury Research Institute (MIRI)

Session Supporter:
Transport Accident Commission

Session objective:
To answer the question: “Do Police, as public health actors, get credit for their contribution?”

Chair: Professor Max Cameron

Presenters:

• Professor Max Cameron, MUARC/Monash Injury Research Institute (MIRI): Enforcement of speeding and impaired driving: The most effective methods and cost-effective intensity levels
• Belinda Clark, MUARC/MIRI: Hooning around: The application of vehicle impoundment legislation to address anti-social driving behaviour
• Professor Arie Freiberg, Dean of Law, Monash University: Law Enforcement, sentencing and public health: Driving while suspended or disqualified
• Inspector Martin Boorman, Victoria Police: The drink and drug driving enforcement link to public health

Location: YHM Room

2.00 – 2.30 pm

Title: Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia Community Legal Education Initiative (BABSEA CLE)

Presenter: Bruce A. Lasky, Co-founder/Co-director, BABSEA CLE

BABSEA CLE will provide insight on the way university clinical legal education programmes can collaborate in the area of policing and public health.

This will include specific examples of a number of clinical legal education models including those focusing on pre-trial detention/bail release programmes.
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2.30 – 3.00 pm

Title: Operation Newstart

Presenter: Phil Wheatley, Executive Officer, Operation Newstart Victoria

Research shows that if youth are engaged in education then the risk of involvement with the criminal justice system is reduced and health and social outcomes are markedly improved.

Operation Newstart seeks to re-engage ‘at risk’ youth who demonstrate truancy, contact with police, emerging mental health issues, experimentation with alcohol and other drugs, family conflict and an unstable peer group. Independent evaluations have shown significant achievements for the program.
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3.00 – 3.30 pm

Title: Gang violence mediation – New Zealand style

Presenters: Harry Tam, Te Puni Kokiri, New Zealand.
Government and Julia Carr, Senior Policy Analyst, Whanau and Social Policy, New Zealand.

Where there is escalating violence between gang-affiliated communities, experienced mediators are required such as credibility and experience. This presentation will discuss the importance of post-resolution (post-interruption) action to move beyond firefighting and into positive pro-social development. Police collaboration in these activities is integral, as is the inclusion of families in the mediation process. This presentation will discuss the mediation of gang violence and measures used to assess its success, including: initial actions, engagement of ‘hard to read’ families with local health services, intermediate indicators such as immunisation of children, cardiovascular risk assessment of adults, whanau ora plans, improved literacy and education opportunities.

• Professor Duncan Chappell, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Criminology in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. The current international landscape
• Professor Simon Bronitt Policing discretion and mental health: Regulating reasonable force
  
• Elli Wellings, Acting Sergeant, Victoria Police Intersectoral collaboration: responding to complex policing, health, social and welfare issues
• Senior Sergeant Paul Campbell, Victoria Police An overview of the Victoria Police co-response to mental health crisis incidents in the community

Location:
The J. H. Mitchell Theatre

Session Convener:
City of Melbourne

Session objective:
Given that local government bears the brunt of complex social issues: what lessons have been learned?

Chair: Dean Griggs, Manager, Community Safety and Wellbeing, City of Melbourne

Presenters:

• Suzi Matthews, Manager Late Night Economy, City of Sydney
  
• Anne Malloch, Team Leader City People, City of Melbourne
• Inspector Bernie Jackson, Victoria Police, Melbourne East
• Donna Macik, Community Safety and Wellbeing Officer, City of Greater Dandenong
• Jennifer West, Team Leader Safety Strategy, City of Adelaide

Location:
The Russell Love Theatrette

Session Convener:
Law Enforcement and HIV Network (LEAHN)

Session objective:
Understanding what makes for successful police collaboration with criminalized communities

Chair: Dr Nick Thomson, Director, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health; Honorary Fellow, Nossal Institute for Global Health & Field Director, Johns Hopkins School of Population Health

Session details:
An examination of the essential elements for successful collaboration between the police and criminalized communities, like sex workers and drug users, in low and middle-income countries.

Presenters:

• Natalya Shumskaya, Country Director, AIDS Foundation East-West (Kyrgyz Republic). Friendly police, ministerial guidelines and positive incentives: a foundation for HIV prevention among marginalized groups in Kyrgyzstan.
• Jones Blantari, Deputy Director of Health, Ghana Police Service (Ghana). Engaging police personnel in reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination: a case of the Ghana Police Service
• Leo Beletsky, Assistant Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Northeastern University School of Law (United States). Aligning police and harm reduction: research to practice
• Dr. Gyaw Htet Doe, Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Substance Abuse Research Association (Myanmar). Introducing harm reduction interventions in Myanmar: partnering with Anti-Narcotic Task Forces.

Location: YHM Room

3.50 – 4.20 pm

Title: Road Policing – Impact of road trauma

Presenters: Bernadette Nugent and Christine Harrison, Road Trauma Support Services Victoria (RTSSV).

RTSSV and Victoria Police have a long standing reciprocal relationship based on education and raising community awareness around road trauma. This program provides an example of how partnerships between organisations can enhance both public health and promote good working relationships between different sectors. Personal stories of people affected by road trauma will be presented.

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4.20 – 4.50 pm

Title: Motor vehicle pursuit fatalities in Australia, 2000 – 2011:
National Deaths in Custody Program (NDICP)

Presenter: Mathew Lyneham, Australian Institute for Criminology

The National Deaths in Custody Program monitors the circumstances and nature of deaths occurring in motor vehicle pursuits across Australia. In 2012 the Australian Institute of Criminology undertook some collaborative research with police services across Australia which examined fatal motor vehicle pursuits, including their impact on innocent road users, precipitating offences, as well as factors such as speeds reached, prior drug/alcohol consumption and length and location of pursuits. Key findings from this study will be presented and discussed.
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4.50 – 5.20 pm

Title: Joint Investigation Response Team (JIRT) for child sexual and physical assaults

Presenters: Matthew Brown, Detective Sergeant, Victoria Police

The JIRT project highlights the benefits of co-location of police and Department of Human Services staff to carry out specialist investigations into child, sexual and physical assaults. The presentation will discuss difficulties around working in a co-ordinated team whilst coming from different professional backgrounds. This project will highlight the benefits of a wholistic approach to difficult police investigations.

Location:
The J. H. Mitchell Theatre

Session objective:
To explore the complex challenges faced by police in the prevention of suicide

Chair: Nicole Turner, Law Enforcement and HIV Network (LEAHN) Co-ordinator

Presenters:

• Jack Heath, CEO, SANE Australia. The SANE-SupportLink outreach partnership.
• David L Ranson, Deputy Director, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine: The law enforcement-public health partnership as it relates to suicide prevention.
• Trevor Hazell, Director, Hunter Institute of Mental Health. The role of police in suicide prevention and response: the Mindframe project
• Joel Murchie, Inspector – Commander, Mental Health Intervention Team, NSW Police. Suicide prevention; everybody’s business

Location:
The Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Session Convener:
Australian Institute of Police Management

Session objective:
To explore the concept of leadership as it is taught at the Australian Institute of Police Management.

Session details:
A broad discussion of contemporary leadership theory and the type of leadership required to influence change. Specifically, an exploration of the type of leadership that will most effectively progress the challenges faced by law enforcement and public health agencies and others as they work together to reduce and manage the increasing demand for these services. Two case studies will be presented describing change introduced and achieved within organisations and jointly with others to improve the health outcomes and futures for people involved as victims and/or offenders. We will identify the leadership that was exercised and that was most effective in terms of influencing.

Chair: Superintendent Graham Kent, Australian Institute of Police Management

Presenters:

• Warwick Jones, Executive Director, Australian Institute of Police Management
• Superintendent Graham Kent, Australian Institute of Police Management
• Lucinda Nolan, Deputy Commissioner, Strategy and Organisational Development, Victoria Police
• Peter Burns, Chief Executive, YMCA Victoira

Location:
The Russell Love Theatrette

Session Convener:
Australian Crime Prevention Council

Session objective:
To determine the contribution of public health to crime prevention, and how it can be optimized ethically.

Chair: Andrew Wilson AM, past National President of the Australian Crime Prevention Council, Auxiliary Judge of the District Court of South Australia and Adjunct Professor of RMIT University

Presenters:

• Isabelle Bartkowiak-Theron, Australian Crime Prevention Council. Dismantling the silos: consolidating knowledge-sharing and
  partnerships between
  law enforcement, law
  and medicine’
• Vivien Carli, International Centre for Prevention of Crime. The problematic relationship of public health and crime prevention
• Kerry Walker, Director of the Neighbourhood Justice Centre, Victoria. ‘Motivating communities to be involved in crime prevention’
• Richard Bent, Senior Research Fellow, Insitute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Calls for police service relating to the Mental Health Act: an analysis of data for Burnaby RCMP Detachment

Location: YHM Room

1.30 – 2.00 pm

Title: Addressing cannabis use in Indigenous communities in Far North Queensland

Presenters: Bernadette Rogerson, Senior Research Officer, James Cook University; Detective Senior Sergeant Kevin Goan, Queensland Police Service (attendance to be confirmed); Detective Senior Sergeant Gary Hunter, Queensland Police Service (attendance to be confirmed)

Collaboration between JCU and QPS discusses the importance of engaging with the local community and service providers whilst recognising the strengths and limitations of the role of police in limiting harms from cannabis use, including crime prevention strategies.
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2.00 – 2.30 pm

Title: Project Aegis: Addressing the Social Impact of Pharmaceutical Drug Misuse

Presenters: Susan Beattie, Senior Project Officer, Queensland Police Service and Corey Allen, Senior Sergeant, Queensland Police Service.

The project aims to reduce the misuse of pharmaceutical drugs in Brisbane CBD. The strategy focuses on encouraging a values based approach to vulnerable persons in the CBD to build trust, strengthen relationships, raises the positive profile of police in the support services community, and to improve the personal, problem solving approach of general duties police.
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2.30 – 3.00 pm

Title: Police/health partnership in addressing alcohol and other drugs (AOD) in Footscray (Melbourne)

Presenters:Bernadette Suter, Program Manager, Health Works;
Joanna Noesgaard, Senior Health and Social Planner, Maribyrnong City Council; Detective Sergeant Peter Bitton, Victoria Police; Acting Detective Sergeant Brendan O’Mahoney, Victoria Police.

Discusses the challenges of creating a partnership approach to addressing AOD between organisations with different organisational cultures. Highlights benefits of resource sharing and importance of openness, compromise and understanding the views of others.

• Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan, Western Australian Police. ‘Operation Safeplace – protecting our children’
• Detective Superintendent Brett Guerin, Chair, Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs. Differences in perspectives: police and health practitioners at street level
• Jon White, CEO, Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency: Cross jurisdictional policing perspectives
• Tony Campbell, CEO and Founder, SupportLink. The changing tide of police partnerships

Commentary

• Auke van Dijk, Adviser to the Chief of the Amsterdam Police, The Amsterdam Experience

Location:
The J. H. Mitchell Theatre

Session Convener:
Department of Health, Victoria

Session objective:
To explore the place of the public health law and the criminal law in preventing people placing others at risk of infectious diseases

Chair: Dr Rosemary Lester, Chief Health Officer, Health Protection Branch, Department of Health, Victoria

Presenters:

• Dr Danny Csutoros, Medical Advisor, Health Protection Branch, Victorian Department of Health. ‘Operation of the national and state guidelines 5 years on from the Griew review’
• Tom Carter OAM, Department of Health Victoria. ‘A case study of the public health management of a client allegedly placing others at risk.’
• Dr Ric Milner, General Practitioner and Medical Officer, Barwon Health Sexual Health Clinic. Assessing and coping at the coalface with patients putting others at risk
• Detective Senior Constable Greg Nunn, Victoria Police. ‘People with HIV who put others at risk’

Location:
The Russell Love Theatrette

Session Convener:
International Development Law Organisation and the Law Enforcement and HIV Network (LEAHN)

Session objectives
To show the mutual benefits to law enforcement and public health officials of police practices that support public health objectives and respect the rights and integrity of all citizens.

To describe the UNAIDS “Investment framework” and the important role that law enforcement plays in achieving an enabling environment in which political targets can be met.

To illustrate examples of existing good practice and collaborations between international organisations, civil society and police.

Chair: Leo Kenny, Country Co-ordinator, Bangladesh, UNAIDS

Presenters:

• Alison Crocket, Senior Adviser, Key populations, UNAIDS, Geneva. UNAIDS investment framework: why is it important and what is the role that Law Enforcement can play.
• Fariba Soltani, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. The work of the UNODC in promoting police practice that supports public health initiatives (Feedback from a recent event with senior police in Kiev)
• Surita Jadev, UNAIDS, New Delhi. Regional examples of good practice, where both police and public health objectives have been met, and crime rates and HIV transmission amongst injecting drug users and/or sex workers have gone down.
• Gloria Lai, Senior Policy Officer, International Drug Policy Consortium. Developing policy guidance for law enforcement authorities on policing key populations: What is the evidence that supporting public health objectives can also support police objectives of creating safer, healthier communities?

Location: YHM Room

3.30 – 4.00 pm

Title: Yarra Drug and Health Forum (YDHF)

Presenter: Greg Denham, Yarra Drug and Health Forum, Victoria

The YDHF has been operating for 16 years and provides a dynamic and consistently informative gathering point and ‘space’ for anyone interested in drug related issues. The effective practices of the program include collaboration and building a coalition of consensus where police and health work together. Stakeholder engagement is important and this is best achieved when the notion of collaboration is ‘operationalised’ for police and health workers. Co-location of police and Alcohol and Other Drug specialists is one example of a successful project to be discussed.
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4.00 – 4.30 pm

Title: Lifeline’s Read the Signs project

Presenter: Debbie Knee and John Jones

Lifeline is a charitable organisation that provides all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with support and suicide prevention services. In this presentation, Lifeline will talk about the range of support services it is delivering in Australia with specific focus on the programs available in Victoria. Lifeline works in partnership with organisations and communities to promote good mental health among Australians
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4.30 – 5.00 pm

Title: Local laws preventing violence against women

Presenters: Tracey Blythe, Team Leader Health Promotion, City of Casey; Sergeant Nick Svarnias, Victoria Police; Rod Bezanovic, Team Leader Local Laws, City of Casey.

City of Casey (Victoria) staff recognised a strong link between the role of local laws officers and the potential for prevention of violence against women. in the past year at least 12 incidents involving local laws officers intervention had indirectly contributed to an act of violence against a woman (eg; dog seizures and resulting assault of a woman resident). By officers changing attitudes and procedures, the safety of women is now at the forefront of all work undertaken. A partnership was strengthened with the local police, local laws and health promotion team within Council. A model was developed to build the capacity of the local laws team to proatively ensure the safety of women and prevent violence or become a referral point for assistance.

• Dean Daley-Jones who plays TJ in the film
• Megan Williams – Muru Marri Indigenous Health Unit, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW. Megan was also one of the founding directors of the Project 10% campaign on Aboriginal health and imprisonment in Queensland
• Dr Ted Wilkes, member of the Australian National Council on Drugs and Chair of the National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (for Justice Reinvestment)
• Dr Tom Calma, National Coordinator for Tackling Indigenous Smoking (for Justice Reinvestment)

Location:
The J. H. Mitchell Theatre

Session objective:
To examine whether global health is possible without secure governance

Chair: Associate Professor Steve James, Criminology Discipline Chair, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne

Presenters:

• Associate Professor Tilman Ruff, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne & Co-President, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. The Fukushima nuclear
  disaster: the public health response and lessons for government.
• Professor Richard Tanter, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne & Senior Research Fellow, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. The signature wound of
  the United Nations war in Afghanistan: contemporary modes of warfare, socio-technical networks, and cosmopolitan responsibility for health and security.
• Jason Eligh, Country Manager, UNODC Myanmar: Responding to health and insecurity in a transforming Myanmar

Location:
The Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Session objective:
To canvas the range of policies and strategies that may contribute to a reduction in all forms of violent behaviour.

Chair: Andrew O’Keefe, Chairman, White Ribbon

Presenters:

• Detective Superintendent Rod Jouning, Victoria Police & Fiona McCormack, Chief Executive Officer, Domestic Violence Victoria: The link between policing, violence against women and public health organisations
• Deborah Costello, Chief Executive Officer, Injury Control Council of Western Australia, Towards a future without violence: A community violence prevention strategy for the North Metropolitan area of Western Australia
• Amanda Wheeler, Centre Development General Manager, Lifeline. DV-alert: Lifeline’s domestic violence training program

Location:
The Russell Love Theatrette

Session objective:
To explore the potential of an enhanced police-health partnership in promoting diversion of drug users away from compulsory treatment.

Chair: Dr Nick Thomson, Director, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health; Honorary Fellow, Nossal Institute for Global Health & Field Director, Johns Hopkins School of Population Health

Presenters

• Tan Sri Mohamed Zaman Khan, Chief of Malaysian Police (retired), Prison Governor, and recent Chair of the Malaysian AIDS Council. How do we get police to play an active role in diversion into health services (reflecting on Malaysia)
• Dr Ouk Vichea, Head of Technical Bureau, National Centre for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD, Cambodia. The Police-Community Partnership Initiative: diversion away from detention in Cambodia.
• Jennifer Hasselgard-Rowe, University of Melbourne PhD student. Legal systems in the context of CCDUs – where are the legal leverage points (including the role of legal/paralegal aid)
• Sonia Bezziccheri, UNAIDS, Phnom Penh. Report back on the recent UNODC, ESCAP and UNAIDS high level meeting on CCDU in Malaysia

Location: YHM Room

1.30 – 2.00 pm

Title: The Australian Drug Foundation’s Good Sports / Victorian Police partnership

Presenters: Rod Glenn-Smith – State Manager Good Sports Victoria and South Australia and Bob Barby – Responsible Serving of Alcohol and Club Liquor Licensing Seminar presenter and former District Inspector, Victoria Police.

Good Sports is a national alcohol harm reduction program that strives to make community sporting clubs healthier and safer places. The program supports clubs to introduce policies and practices that create a culture of responsible drinking within the club. Independent research shows that Good Sports helps to reduce alcohol consumption, risky drinking, drink-driving and anti-social behaviour among participating clubs. Good Sports’ success has been established by operating at a grassroots level in partnership with like-minded organisations and by offering practical solutions to real problems.
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2.00 – 2.30 pm

Title: Youth Support Service

Presenter: Ipsita Wright, Director Services, Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS).

The Youth Support Service creates an early intervention service for young people at risk of entering the youth justice system. The system is based on an exclusive referral process from Victoria Police through a new commercial electronic referral system, SupportLink. The program has provided an integrated health and wellbeing response and diverted many young people from the criminal justice system. Lessons learnt about the rollout of this system state-wide will be discussed.
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2.30 – 3.00 pm

Title: How SupportLink and SANE Australia help police to help others

Presenters: Rosario Grasso, Victorian Manager, SupportLink and Yvonne Santen, Manager, SANE Helpline

This partnership between police, SupportLink and SANE aims to maximise opportunities for early intervention for vulnerable people with mental health issues. It is a progressive and highly advantageous program for remote, rural, regional and metropolitan communities. The program helps to alleviate a significant proportion of the overload experienced by Emergency Services on a national scale. This program enables SANE to help vulnerable people increase levels of social inclusion and general mental wellbeing.

Location:
The Carrillo Gantner Theatre

Session Convener:
REOS Partners

Chair: Steve Fontana, Assistant Commissioner Crime, Victoria Police

Session objective:
This session will explore new, creative and imaginative approaches to shifting stuck and complex social systems. It will examine the latest thinking and experience in mobilising police and community around common goals and collaborative approaches to community problem solving.

Presenters

• Charles Allen, Inspector, Greater Dandenong, Victoria Police. Sustainable conflict resolution for emerging communities: the experience of Greater Dandenong
• Dr Nicholas Thomson, Director, Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health. Police and community led structural change: addressing crime and improving social risk environments in Asia

Summation
Dr Leigh Gassner, REOS Partners. Examining systemic problems and convening multisectoral dialogue to find solutions.

Location:
The Russell Love Theatrette

Session objective:
To examine how effective policing can reduce the damaging outcomes from major disasters and events involving large numbers of people.

Presenters:

• Malcolm (Jock) Menzel, Superintendent, State Emergency Response Officer, State Emergencies and Security Department, Victoria Police. Major planning for emergency responses
• Assistant Commissioner Dave Cliff, New Zealand Police: The response to the Christchurch earthquakes
• Julian Meagher, Manager, Public Health Emergency Management, Victorian Department of Health. ‘Roles and responsibilities of public health in major events and disasters: the need to work collaboratively’

Location: YHM Room

3.30 – 4.00 pm

Title: Sex, Drugs, and Law Enforcement: Models of Police-Community Collaboration

Sponsor: Open Society Foundations

Panelists
Sanjay Patil
Rachel Thomas
Mr. Jones Blantari
Deputy Director of Health, Ghana Police Service (Ghana)
Dr. Gyaw Htet Doe
Senior Consultant Psychiatrist
Substance Abuse Research Association (Myanmar)

Police in low and middle-income countries normally adopt a punitive approach towards drug users and sex workers. However, where police and NGOs have worked together to improve the health and well-being of criminalized groups, it is critical to understand why the collaborations succeeded so that we can learn how such partnerships can possibly be replicated. Utilizing a talk-show format, this session will look at interesting examples of collaboration from Kyrgyzstan, Ghana and Myanmar.
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4.00 – 4.30 pm

UNAIDS – to be advised