Proventis believes in supporting the local community. To that end we have become involved in several projects in the Thames Valley area.

We are currently providing services for:

"Artemis" Project
Youth & Schools Department of Bracknell Forest Police Sector, Berkshire.
The essential aim of the team is to reduce offending by young people.

Proventis is building a database called "Artemis". This is a groundbreaking project and the database side of it is essential to the project's success.

The database uses web-based technology to allow its use within the Police's current IT infrastructure. The database will record all police contact with young people in the the Bracknell Forest area.

For the last 2 years the Bracknell Youth and Schools Office has been trying to find a solution that would enable them to record contacts and the accumulation of risk factors among young children and teenagers (up to 19 years old) that have been involved in criminal or non-criminal offences.

The risk factors are a prescribed list of factors which are believed to contribute towards the potential of a child becoming more and more involved in crime. This system will allow the Bracknell Youth and Schools Office to allocate scores to each child for each specific incident based upon those risk factors. A high risk factor score will signify that the individual is in need of more concerted help. Having recognised this, the Bracknell Youth and Schools Office will be able to refer them to a relevant agency (e.g. Social Services, Education Welfare, Youth Services, etc.) in an effort to prevent their continuing slide into crime.

"Berkshire Bobby" Project
Community Safety Partnership - Thames Valley Police, Maidenhead
The purpose of the Berkshire Bobby scheme is to provide free home security for the vulnerable and those at risk in the Maidenhead and Bracknell areas. The scheme has dealt with an increasing number of referrals since its creation. Until now, this process has been handled manually in its entirety, slowing down the response times of the team.

The processing of such information is vital to identify trends in crime and the fear of crime within the community, measure the success rate and the costs of the scheme and provide information to other public bodies (i.e. health, housing, fire, environmental, local authority, etc). The fact that Berkshire Bobby Scheme members visit the homes of individuals is a great opportunity to ensure those vulnerable and at risk are looked after by the community.