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Forty eight dangerous offenders beingPosted on 11/15/2009 at 8:03 PM - Post CommentForty eight dangerous offenders being supervised by the police and the probation service last year were charged with murder, rape or another serious offence, according to figures published today.Almost a further 1,500 dangerous criminals being monitored in the community were sent back to prison for breaking the terms of their release from jail or breaching an order which bars inflatable sex offenders from a range of activities. The figures also show that the number of people on the sex offender register rose by just under 1,000 to reach 32,000 last year. But a row broke out after it emerged that the Ministry of Justice had changed the way the figures are compiled and published, making it impossible to compare the total number of violent and dangerous offenders supervised in 2008-9 with numbers for previous years. Related Links Today¡¯s figures are gathered from multi-agency public protection arrangements (Mappas), made up of police, probation, prison and other agencies, in each of the 42 probation areas of England and Wales. In recent years a inflatable bouncer number of murders committed by convicted criminals under Mappa arrangements have undermined public confidence in the probation service. Damien Hanson was under Mappa arrangements when he and an accomplice Elliot White murdered John Monckton at his home in Chelsea, London almost four years ago. Anthony Rice, 48, was freed from jail nine months before he stabbed Naomi Bryant in her home in Winchester in August 2005. He was under Mappa arrangement but a probation inspection report found ¡°substantial deficiencies" in his supervision by probation and other officials in inflatable castles Hampshire. Maria Eagle, the Justice Minister, said that the risk of further crimes being committed by those supervised under the arrangements was ¡°ever present¡± because they could display dangerous and unpredictable behaviour. |
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