How we manage dangerous people
Cheshire Police has created three specialist Public
Protection Units which cover the whole county.
Each of these specialist units is led by a Detective Inspector
who co-chairs regular meetings with the relevant officer from the
Probation Service. They also have specialist officers who have
responsibility for the management of registered sex offenders.
Additionally these units are supported by a centrally located
Strategic Public Protection and Paedophile Unit. This has strategic
responsibility across the force area for the management of sex
offenders and violent offenders.
The operational arm of the unit investigate offenders who use
the internet and other forms of communication to assault, groom,
and share and distribute images in order to sexually abuse
children.
How can dangerous people be managed?
Sexual Offences Prevention Orders, Notification Orders and
Foreign Travel Orders are intervention tools that restrict
the behaviour of offenders and can be applied for through
the courts with the intention of preventing them
committing serious further offences.
Sexual Offences Prevention Orders
This places prohibitions on behaviour and can be used where an
offender with a conviction or caution for an offence listed in
Schedule 3 or Schedule 5 is considered to pose a risk of serious
sexual harm. It does not matter when the conviction or caution was
received.
Notification Orders
This requires sexual offenders who have been convicted overseas
to register with police, in order to protect the public in the UK
from the risks that they pose.
Foreign Travel Orders
This prevents offenders with convictions for sexual offences
against children from travelling abroad where it is necessary to do
so to protect children from the risk of sexual harm.
A breach of these orders, without reasonable excuse, is a
criminal offence with a maximum penalty of five years'
imprisonment.