Plan to tackle top 100 offenders

TACKLING the 100 worst repeat offenders in Cheshire is being put forward by one of the candidates aiming to become the county’s new Police and Crime Commissioner.
Plans for a “super team” to tackle the worst 100, are put forward by former Assistant Chief Constable John Dwyer who is the Conservative Candidate for commissioner.
John (pictured) said, “This small group of offenders take up hundreds of police hours a year and similar amounts of time in other agencies like the courts and probation. Drugs are nearly always the common denominator and the current criminal justice provisions seem to have little or no effect.”
The team would have representatives from GP’s, mental health, housing trusts and drug rehabilitation, amongst others. It would be chaired by the commissioner and seek to find individual treatments and punishments for the recognised offenders to wean them off drugs and crime.
He said: “Each of these offenders will have a special and tailored programme of help. They account for a frightening amount of crimes across Cheshire and are often arrested several times a week. Even if the team is only partially successful it will have a major impact on freeing up police hours and lowering crime rates.”
New Policing Minister Damien Green is backing John’s proposal.
He said: “This is an exciting new initiative and one I will be watching and monitoring very closely.
“So many crimes in the UK are committed by a small group of people often to feed a highly destructive drug addiction. We need to be ever vigilant in finding new ways to help.”