NATIONAL UGLY MUGS PILOT SHEME 2012 Produced Delivered

NATIONAL UGLY MUGS PILOT SHEME 2012 Produced & Delivered by UK Network of Sex Work Projects Funded by the Home Office

OUTLINE • INTRODUCTION • HOW TO USE THE NATIONAL UGLY MUGS PILOT SCHEME – – BECOMING A MEMBER REPORTING INCIDENTS ALERTS PHONE APP • SHARING INFORMATION • SERIOUS CRIMES ANALYSIS SECTION (SCAS) • CONCLUSION

WHY DO WE NEED A NATIONAL UGLY MUGS SCHEME? • To complement the work of projects and local ugly mugs schemes and promote best practice. • Provide a mechanism for sex workers, who are not in touch with a projects or do not have one in their area, to report incidents and receive alerts. • To engage online escorts, supporting and complementing existing warning boards on sites and forums. • To enable mobile sex workers to receive alerts wherever they go.

WHY DO WE NEED A NATIONAL UGLY MUGS SCHEME? Continued. . • To protect sex workers from mobile offenders. • Improve the level, and analysis, of intelligence regarding crimes committed against sex workers in the UK. • To work with the police nationally to bring perpetrators of crimes against sex workers to justice. • To increase the reporting of crimes against sex workers by raising awareness nationally.

Remember… • This is a pilot scheme funded by the Home Office until the end of March 2013. • The point of a pilot is TO LEARN FROM IT. • We will be monitoring the impact of the Scheme throughout and assessing how we can improve on it – we will be asking for your input and feedback! • We have a limited budget and limited resources so we must manage expectations.

COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO THE NATIONAL UGLY MUGS PILOT SCHEME 1. Reporting and Recording System 2. Production & Circulation of Alerts A mechanism for sex workers themselves, projects, online escort sites or establishments to report incidents directly via the website, the phone app or to the National Ugly Mugs Team. The National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme will use reports to produce sanitised alerts which will warn sex workers of dangerous individuals throughout the UK. Projects, online forums and establishments will also be able to use these alerts to warn their service users or members. Sex workers can: • Report directly through the website or phone app • Visit their nearest project to report • Or call the National Ugly Mugs team for assistance The alerts can be received: • By e-mail or text message Incident/Attack • Through the website • Through the phone app If the victim consents we will share the report anonymously with the Serious Crimes Analysis Section (SCAS) to help bring perpetrators of crimes against sex workers and other people to justice. We will also put victims in touch with their local police if they would like us to and they are not in touch with a project. 3. Sharing information with the police and Serious Crimes Analysis Section (SCAS)

WHY A NATIONAL UGLY MUGS SCHEME IS NEEDED CASE STUDIES

The two faces of Matthew Byrne: A case study • Manager of local children's charity & board member (former chair) of national charity. • High public profile in Liverpool & nationally in the field. • Stood as local MP. • Serial attacker of sex workers with dangerous interest in young girls.

Matthew Byrne • • 1 st Ugly Mug-Nov 08 (Liverpool) 3 rd Party 2 nd Ugly Mug-April 09 (Coventry) Anon Investigation begun in Liverpool 3 rd Ugly Mug-May 09 (Liverpool) full report Byrne seen on train 5/6/09 taking photos on train (Liverpool) Byrne arrested by British transport police 26/6/09 Police go to his home 26/6/09 -find torture chamber-realise linked to attacks on sex workers & pass to Merseyside Police • CSI find various samples which link sex workers to the property • ISVA works with police to locate victims & engage them-all do full statements • Coventry project works with police to locate victims & engage themall do full statements.

Matthew Byrne • Charged with 35 offences initially relating to 6 women. • Also charged with possession of 9, 000 indecent images of children. • Making 2 level 3 and 2 level 4 images of children. • Committing a lewd act. • He plead guilty to offences against 4 women. • He plead guilty to all the indecent image charges. • He plead guilty to committing a lewd act. • And the result at court was? . . .

Travelling offending • Distance to Coventry is 130 miles • Average time 2 hr 28 mins • To Cov-pick up victim, drive back to M’side • Offend, drive victim back to Cov • Return to M’side • Total mileage=520 miles • Total time=9 hrs 52 mins

Why is this a good example of how a National Scheme could save lives? • This case study demonstrates the benefits of good practice and close working relationships between projects in different regions. • But it relied in the early stages on pre-existing relationships between Liverpool & Coventry which was chance. • Coventry manager put out a query through UKNSWP mail asking if any one had similar incidents reported to them. • A national scheme does not rely on chance informal links • The National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme will : – Formalise such sharing of information across the UK. – Build on, enhance and spread good practice in taking reports.

Case Study: Neil Mac. Millan • Jailed for the 2009 murder of trans sex worker Andrea Waddell in her Brighton home. • Had raped another sex worker 6 weeks before. • By circulating alerts nationally, the National Ugly Mugs Scheme could save the lives of people like Andrea.

Confidentiality • The National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme will strive to protect the confidentiality of members by: – – – Adhering to strict Information Governance standards and legislation including the Data Protection Act. Having a secure, encrypted, managed dedicated web server. Being registered with the Information Commissioners Officer and having strict policies to protect the confidentiality and security of data. • A Data Sharing and Partnership Agreement has been agreed with SCAS which commits both parties to the protection and proper use of data shared. – – Only sharing information with police and SCAS with a members’ permission (unless bound by law to breach confidentiality). Personal member details and contacts will not be sent to SCAS.

Becoming a member • There are three types of membership: – – – Individual membership Project membership Escort sites/Establishment membership • Members MUST agree to the terms and conditions of membership and adhere to the code of conduct detailed in the membership document. • Projects, escort sites and establishments should also encourage their service users or clients to become individual members so that they can have full access to the Scheme independently should they wish to. • When members sign up to the Scheme they will be asked details about the type of work they do and their gender or in the case of organisation members they will be asked to tick boxes relating to their service users. – – This is confidential and is purely for monitoring and research purposes (further details on how this information will be used can be found in the training document. Members will also have the option to chose not to answer.

Continued… • Visit our website: https: //www. uknswp. org/uglymugs/joining-ugly-mugs • Click the ‘join’ button on the page • Fill out the registration form, selecting ‘Ugly Mugs’ as membership type and provide us with the following: – A username (if you are a sex worker you can give a false name). – Email (if you are a project or Escort site this must be an organisational e -mail). – If you would like to receive SMS alerts then please provide your mobile number (sex workers should be reminded to update their number regularly) • Once the application has been approved you will be emailed a password. • You can then login using the button on the website.

Migrants and translation • We have published a leaflet, aimed at sex workers themselves, which will be translated into Romanian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Polish and Mandarin. • We will provide a limited number of these to projects (in English or the languages above) for free to distribute to their service users. • We also have a contract with a translation company to translate alerts or reports if required.

MAKING REPORTS IMPORTANT: TRY TO REMEMBER THE DETAILS ASKED FOR ON THE INCIDENT REPORT FORM – IT MAY BE LONG BUT THE MORE INFORMATION WE HAVE THE MORE LIKELY WE ARE TO IDENTIFY OFFENDERS

Project report taking best practice reminder PRIORITIES • Service user welfare & support need • Encouraging & giving opportunity to report without pressurising: reaching balance • Ensuring service user is comfortable, not too distressed & consenting • Confidentiality • Ideally reports should be taken as soon as possible after the incident: but bear in mind that immediately after an incident may not be the right time • Assist all service users to make a report if they want to, regardless of when the incident took place

Making a report • Visit the website: https: //www. uknswp. or g/ugly-mugs/how-tomake-a-report • Click the report button on the page or on the left hand menu. • You will then be taken to the report form. • We can accept reports in other ways (such as over the phone) but for confidentiality and data protection issues we recommend that projects input reports directly via the website.

The incident report form • The National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme will make use of the UKNSWP Ugly Mugs Good Practice Form. • For detailed information on how this was developed and guidance on how to take a report please refer to the Good Practice Guidance on the UKNSWP website. • The form may be long but getting as much information as possible is important for the following reasons: – Both SCAS and the Police will be able to use the information to identify offenders and link incidents. – We will be able to issue more effective alerts to warn sex workers of potential dangers. • The National Ugly Mugs website allows projects to print off a blank form for their use. • To avoid repetition of work, members can also print out or save a completed forms to store in line with their own information governance policies. – Projects can also save the contents of the “what happened” section of the form in a Word Doc once they have completed it to use in any magazines or alerts they issue – in line with their own policies. • The report form will be tailored to the different types of membership to avoid confusion.

The incident report form continued. . • If you don’t have time to fill in all the details you can make more than one report about the same incident. • The “Report Type” section circled to the left gives you the option to select “partial report”. • This will allow you to follow-up a quick or partial report with a more detailed one when you have the time. • To do this (as shown): – – Select “Follow Up Report” from the “Report Type” menu. Enter the report number from the first report you made into the box provided at the top of the form – this will be e-mailed to you so it is important that you MAKE A NOTE of it.

STORING REPORTS We strongly recommend that you store completed forms either electronically or a as a hard copy. Please take the following measures: • Have protocol for storing information & understand the implications of data protection legislation. • Allocate reference number to completed forms. • Store securely: hard copy (i. e. locked) computer (password protected). • Ensure available/retrievable for future reference. • Record which information is distributed, to whom and when. • If you have paper copies keep each one in plastic wallets separately, preferably in single suspension files to avoid seizure of all reports

ALERTS The National Ugly Mugs Scheme will issue alerts – this will save projects time and effort!

Example Alerts Wednesday 30 th September 2009, Baird Street Manchester. 9. 30 -10 pm. Male, white British, mid 30’s, hairy arms, stubble, bald, stocky build, 5 ft 7, northern accent wearing black jogging bottoms and black tracksuit jacket. Driving silver Shogun 4 x 4. Business completed then he grabbed the woman and put his hands over her mouth and said “remember the Ipswich serial killer? Well I’m going to be bigger than him-I will be the Piccadilly serial killer”. Woman fought him off and escaped. No: 456 Sunday 20 th August 2010, Maida Vale, London. 11. 00 pm. Male perceived to be of Indian origin, around 55 years old, slim, black slicked down hair, moustache & gold rimmed glasses, burly build, London accent but heavily accented. Outcall booking to his home made through an agency. Woman arrived at the address in an apartment block, he opened the door and pinned her against the wall in a very aggressive manner, whilst groping her and holding her tightly, the woman managed to push him off and escape. No: 123.

CIRCULATING ALERTS • The National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme alerts can be accessed in the following ways: – By e-mail sent directly to members – By SMS sent directly to members (if members opt in for SMS alerts) – By logging into the website and viewing or downloading alerts. You will be able to copy these into UM news letters etc, you will be able to select the relevant ones e. g. For you region/high risk • Project members are encouraged to adopt their own ways of distributing National Ugly Mugs Scheme alerts and integrating them into their existing alert systems. – For more information on this please refer to the UKNSWP Good Practice Guidance.

Phone App • National Ugly Mugs Scheme is developing a free phone app which will be available on the following platforms: – – Android i. Phone Blackberry Windows Phone 7 • Members who have joined through the website can use the app to: – Make reports – View alerts – Access emergency contact details and signposting information

SHARING INFORMATION

SHARING INFORMATION • If a person making a report through a project gives consent to report the incident to the local police then the project itself should take the lead with this in line with their procedures. – For more information on this please refer to the UKNSWP Good Practice Guidance on the website. • The NUM Team will assist sex workers in reporting incidents to their local police if required. • The NUM Pilot Scheme has established a Data Sharing and Partnership Agreement with the Serious Crimes Analysis Section (SCAS) and will, with consent, feed anonymous reports into their database. • In the event that SCAS links National Ugly Mugs Reports to other crimes on their database or feels that they should be investigated by police they will pass on the data and encourage the local force to contact the NUM Team. SCAS HAS A UK-WIDE REMIT • The NUM Scheme has also established an agreement with the North West Regional Intelligence Unit who will disseminate Alerts to all the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB) contacts in each force in England Wales.

SERIOUS CRIMES ANALYSIS SECTION (SCAS)

The Origins of the Unit § ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ inquiry - sex worker murders in 1980 s § Serious Crime Analysis Section established in January 1998 as a response • National remit to carry out comparative case analysis on a national basis on all offences falling within the SCAS criteria in the UK SCAS Criteria • Focus on serious stranger sexual offences including murder, attempt murder, rape, attempt rape, sexual assault, abduction

The SCAS Database • National dataset of over 20, 000 serious sexual offences, including over 900 murders • Data storage and flexible search capability – Capture, Collate, Compare • Over 100 Variables - Item, sub-item and free text search capability Comparative Case Analysis • Aim is to identify offences which may potentially be linked • Comparison of offences against those held on the SCAS dataset with the aim of identifying similar cases: – behaviour – geography – descriptive information – intelligence

Monitoring • Monitoring is absolutely crucial to the success and continuation of the National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme. • We will ask you to complete questionnaires throughout the duration of the Pilot and would be very grateful if you would take the time complete them. • We would also appreciate it if you could keep the National Ugly Mugs Team updated with how the Scheme has impacted on you or your organisation. • Please keep us updated on any developments in reporting Ugly Mugs incidents with local police.

The National Ugly Mugs Pilot Scheme is ground-breaking! It will save projects time and effort and CAN SAVE LIVES!