Pilot with Nottinghamshire Police Force to reduce Re-offending Youths
Dev Clever Holdings plc Dev Clever Holdings plc has been commissioned by Nottinghamshire Police to build and run a trial using the Company’s proprietary “VICTAR VR” platform to determine is efficacy on reducing re-offending youths.
Chris Jeffries, CEO Dev Clever, said: "Being selected for this Pilot by Nottinghamshire Police clearly emphasises the excitement surrounding our disruptive career's development and recruitment platform Launchyourcareer.com & VICTAR VR. The Pilot identifies the opportunity for the positive impact that these platforms could have on a young person's life, as they try shape the future, they want for themselves.
“Working with such a proactive team at Nottinghamshire Police who are committed to reducing crime across the district is a genuine honour. It is also a huge compliment that this [Police] Force and the officers involved in the Pilot have faith in the potential for our product to make a genuinely positive social impact and is testament to the innovative product that our talented team have developed. This Pilot recognises the potential of our technology to globally change the way career guidance and recruitment is delivered to young people, supported by Lenovo, across the world."
Inspector Paul Harris, Integrated Offender Management (IOM) lead, Nottinghamshire Police said: "We are delighted to invest in this pioneering partnership between IOM, the Violence Reduction Unit and Dev Clever - any tool which assists in creating a dialogue around positive life choices is very welcome. Young people especially are very open to new technology - so using VR as a 'vehicle' with which to provide career guidance seems a natural step. The VICTAR VR platform is extremely engaging yet allows the user to properly map a route map to employment. One of the key strands of IOM is to 'resettle and rehabilitate' entrenched offenders, or people at risk of being drawn into a lifestyle of crime - we are confident that this pilot will prove very significant in achieving this outcome."
Richard Lee, Global Verticals Education, Lenovo Said: "Lenovo, as the leading global supplier of devices to the Education market, is delighted to partner with Dev Clever and support Nottinghamshire Police in the delivery of a solution addressing the challenge of improving career outcomes for vulnerable young people. The immersive nature of VR Technology encourages engagement at a level so much higher than traditional methods of interacting with young people, and the VICTAR VR solution gives young people a mechanism to work towards career goals through a highly intuitive and impactful interface. With the success of the pilot in Nottinghamshire, the chance to deploy to other constabularies and organisations working to improve the outcomes of young offenders is tremendously exciting."
The aim of this Pilot is to produce the first positive case study that could accelerate the adoption of VICTAR VR and Launchyourcareer.com into every police force, prison, correctional facility, probation office and job centre in the UK; as well as open up opportunities globally for the reduction of repeat offenders.
Given recent FY19 results, which reflected last year was a period of further investment in the Company’s platform technologies, it is particularly pleasing to see the Company enter highly valuable new market verticals within the education sector, where career guidance and subsequent recruitment is evidently applicable.