The Met’s cutting edge V100 programme uses data to identify and target the men who pose the highest risk to women. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ben Russell, the Met's V100 lead said 'the complexities of these cases are really high'.
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00:00The Metropolitan Police launched this so-called V100 initiative in a crackdown
00:07against the abuse of women. Let me explain how the scheme works. The
00:14operation uses a scoring system which calculates the severity of alleged
00:19offences by assigning points based on potential prison sentences. As suspects
00:26accused of a crime carrying a 30-day jail term would be scored a
00:30corresponding number of points. Those who rank in the top 100 each month are then
00:36specifically targeted by police. The Met claims the method has doubled the
00:43likelihood of arrest for those deemed to pose the highest risk. So the complexity
00:49of these cases is really high. This is not just as simple as going to a scene
00:54of a crime taking a statement from a victim and you know taking a case to
00:59court. We use all our tactics and all our approaches to do whatever we can to
01:03prosecute and bring these offenders to justice. So with our V100 program we look
01:08at all reports of violence against women and girls in a
01:13365 day period where an individual has been accused of more than one crime in
01:19that period and we score based on the severity of that offence. So if you're
01:24accused of a really serious crime that gets you higher score. So we're looking
01:29at reports of crime that are recent, that are frequent and are serious. And if
01:34you are one of the top 100 every month you go into our process and we take as
01:38much action as we can against those people. So we work with a number of other
01:41police forces and organisations in our V100 program but one of the things we do
01:45with every single one of our suspects is we look across all policing systems
01:50to see if they've been accused of crimes in any other parts of the country. So we
01:54will do that, we will do those checks, we will do that thorough intelligence work
01:57on every single one of our V100 suspects. We know that there are a number of
02:02factors that influence violence against women and children. And I
02:07know there is increasing concern about the role of social media and different
02:11things that children are particularly, and extreme pornography in
02:15children are particularly exposed to at young age. What the research will tell
02:18you is that the age that someone begins to offend that it can be a worrying
02:23concern. So if someone starts serious offending at a young age that is a
02:27serious indicator.