Surrey

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements

Annual Report 2004-5
In this report
Page

4: Collaboration and scrutiny – the hallmark for success

by Baroness Scotland, Minister of State for Criminal
Justice and Offender Management

5: MAPPA – testament to hard work and commitment

by Robert Quick, Colin McConnell and Karen Page

6 / 7: A year of change and progress

8 / 9: MAPPA AT WORK
Joint visit brings out the truth
The smile that unlocked a survivor’s secret
Protection for the woman who called it off

10: Challenge of the year ahead

11: Audit spotlights level 3 panels

Surrey leads the way on sex offences orders
ViSOR goes on line

12: Prisons target high-risk for MAPPA

13: ViSOR database aids register management

14: Statistical Information

15: Contacts

With thanks also to Kate Lilley, Lesley Cross, Karen Cairns, Stewart Wilcox, Sue
Robinson, Brian Boxall, Liz Ball, Kate Windless, Brenda Lane and “Jenny”

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Collaboration and scrutiny –
the hallmark for success
By Baroness Scotland, Minister of State for Criminal Justice and Offender
Management

T
he work being undertaken to improve the safety of communities through the Multi-
Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) is vitally important and a priority for
government.

The annual reports for 2004/5 provide evidence of that active engagement. Violence and
sexual abuse are unacceptable wherever they occur and it is evident that through MAPPA
such offenders are identified and better managed than ever before. As the number of offenders
within MAPPA continues to grow as expected there is clear evidence that the Responsible
Authority, that is the local police, probation and the Prison Service, is addressing these
additional demands by strengthening local partnerships, using new statutory powers to
restrict the behaviour of offenders, returning offenders to custody where they breach their
licence or order, and using the findings of research and inspection to strengthen national
guidance and local practice.

Although it is never possible completely to eliminate the risk posed by dangerous offenders,
MAPPA is helping to ensure that fewer people are re-victimised.

The active implementation of the Criminal Justice Act (2003) during the last year has clearly
enhanced the ability of a number of agencies including health, social services and housing
to work collaboratively with the Responsible Authority in assessing and managing those
sexual and violent offenders in our communities who pose the highest risk of serious harm.
For the continued success of MAPPA, this collaboration together with the scrutiny of policy
and practice must become the hallmark of these arrangements. Similarly MAPPA must
integrate with other public protection mechanisms dealing with child abuse, domestic
abuse and racial abuse.

For me one of the most exciting developments in this arena in the last 12 months has
been the appointment of lay advisers to assist the Responsible Authority in the oversight
of the arrangements. As ordinary members of the public, these lay advisers represent a
diverse, able and committed group of people who are now helping the statutory agencies
to oversee the work being undertaken through MAPPA and communicate with the public
more effectively. Without a growing sense of public knowledge and confidence about this
work much of the benefits of the public protection arrangements will be lost.

I hope this annual report will be useful, informative and re-assuring to local communities.
The agencies and individuals who have contributed to the achievement of the MAPPA
locally are to be commended.

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MAPPA – testament to hard work
and commitment

T
his is the fourth annual report on the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
(MAPPA) for Surrey. It highlights the achievements made as a result of effective
collaboration between the criminal justice agencies.

The core purposes of MAPPA are public safety, the protection of victims and the reduction of
serious harm. Like other effective multi-agency processes, the MAPPA offers the potential
for a co-ordinated approach to the management of sexual and violent offenders in the
community who pose a risk of serious harm to others. This document illustrates how the
MAPPA is applied at both a strategic and operational level giving concrete examples of
public protection in action.

Surrey is fortunate in having the benefit of lay advisers to offer independent oversight of
the MAPPA and help shape future initiatives. Moreover, the close working relationships
developed between the police, probation and the prison services enables swift action to be
taken where there is clear evidence of an individual’s increasing risk to the community.

The work undertaken and progress made by the Surrey MAPPA is a testament to the
enormous amount of hard work, endeavour and commitment by those involved. We are
sure they will continue to build on their achievements in the year to come.

Robert Quick, Chief Constable, Surrey Police

Colin McConnell, Area Manager, Surrey & Sussex Prisons
Karen Page, Chief Officer, Surrey Probation Area

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A year of change
and progress
T
he first year of the operation of the 2003 Criminal Justice Act has been one of development and
expansion for the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) in Surrey.
The developments include
• The prison service entering the
Arrangements as full partners
• Implementation by Surrey Probation Area
of major risk management policy and
guidance, consistent with the MAPPA
• Definition of the roles of agencies
appointed as Duty to Cooperate (DtC)
agencies in the Act
• A breakfast launch of DtC to chief
executives led by police and probation
services and organised in conjunction
with the Chair of the Surrey Area Child
Protection Committee
• A major overhaul of the 2002 inter- agency
protocol setting up the MAPPA in Surrey
and a revision of the associated housing
protocol
• Tightening of the criteria for operating
MAPPA Level 3
• The introduction by Surrey Police of
ViSOR, the specialised Violent and Sex
Offender Register computer data base.
The Strategic Management Board, which runs MAPPA
in Surrey, has also considered two major policy
papers and run its first quality monitoring exercise.
Biggest change
These developments have been the biggest change
in the short history of MAPPA locally since 2001
when it was set up through provisions of section 67
of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000.
This gave the “Responsible Authority” – then police
and probation - the responsibility of assessing and
managing the risks posed by more serious sexual
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and violent offenders and anyone else thought likely
to cause serious harm.
The 2000 Act defined 67 violent and sexual offences
for inclusion in MAPPA. The 2003 Criminal Justice
Act added another 86 in its schedule 15 with 65
offences of violence and 88 sexual offences. All
come into MAPPA automatically if the offender
receives a sentence of 12 months or more.
Public concern
Surrey Probation Area’s risk management guidance,
based on schedule 15 and introduced in January
2005, included a matrix showing probation staff which
offenders were in MAPPA and at what level. This
has helped probation staff to refer cases accurately
to MAPPA Level 2 and 3 and identify cases that
could be managed by the probation service alone.
Surrey’s children’s services and housing depart-
ments from the county’s 11 boroughs supported
MAPPA from the start. They became regular
members of the then Risk Management and
Assessment Panels (RAMPS) which met mainly
monthly in police divisions to discuss serious
offenders. They also attended Multi Agency Public
Protection Panels (MAPPPS) which met when
needed to discuss particularly high risk cases,
cases causing public concern or cases attracting
media attention. Additionally, in West Surrey, regular
liaison links had developed with the former Surrey
and Hampshire Borders Mental Health Trust.
These arrangements formed the basis of agree-
ments being drafted with the new Duty to Cooperate
agencies. These are the education service, all levels
of the health service, sections of the Ministry of
Work and Pensions, registered social landlords and
providers of electronic monitoring. At the end of the
review year, most of the agreements had been drafted
and work was continuing to identify and approach
the organisations who needed to be involved.
Vital role
As an example, housing departments deal with
dozens of social landlords but only a proportion are
likely to deal with offenders in MAPPA. Similarly, the
county is covered by five National Health Service
primary care trusts and up to the end of the 2004/05
financial year, by three mental health trusts.
The Strategic Management Board prioritised the
cooperation of mental health services because of
their vital role in public protection. At the end of
the review year, the SMB was in discussion with
mental health through the county’s three specialist
forensic/mentally disordered offenders teams to
set up the West Surrey model across the county. It
was hoped the system would provide a model for
the newly-merged trust.
The SMB is proposing that housing, children’s
services and mental health join police and probation
at the core of Surrey MAPPA.
Tighten practice
They will be invited to all regular level 2 review
meetings and are being asked to appoint senior
managers to represent them at level 3 meetings.
Other agencies including education, adult social
services and social landlords are being asked to take
part when needed. Surrey Fire and Rescue, which
is not a DtC agency, is also cooperating in arson
cases through its community safety department.
The DtC protocols are included in the overall
protocol which at the end of the review year was
being revised to include changes in the law and
changing MAPPA practice.
In March 2004, the SMB decided to tighten up
practice in relation to level 3 meetings. This was to
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ensure they were called only when senior managers
needed to be involved, that background briefings
were circulated in advance and that agendas were
standardised to concentrate on risk management.
Additionally, it decided to replace the terms RAMPS
and MAPPPS with MAPPA levels 2 and 3 meetings
respectively. It assessed that the RAMPS still too
closely resembled the previous police-based Sex
Offender Review Panels from which they originated
and that MAPPPS were too easily confused with
MAPPA. At the end of the year, the police were
reviewing all registered sex offenders to identify
those to be supervised by themselves as a single
agency at level 1.
Psychologist joins
MAPPA board
Mr. Simon Smith, consultant forensic psychologist
to the Surrey Hampshire Borders Trust joined the
Strategic Management Board to represent the
health service pending the merger of the three
Surrey mental health trusts.
Ms. Carol Parsons, who joined the board as a
lay member when Surrey became a pilot area
for the role, resigned for professional reasons.
A replacement is being sought. Mr. Howard
Barlow, also an original lay member, has been
confirmed as a lay advisor.
Extra meeting
The board, which meets quarterly, met in June,
September and December 2004 with an extra
meeting in February 2005 for a special audit of
work involving most members of the board.
The other permanent members of the board
are the Chair, Det. Supt. Brian Boxall, Surrey
Police; Ms. Liz Ball, Director of Operations,
Surrey Probation Area; Temporary Assistant
Chief Constable Lynne Owens, Surrey Police;
Mrs. Felicity Budgen, deputy head of Surrey
Children’s service; Mr. Toby Wells, head of
Youth Justice; PC Stewart Wilcox, Surrey Police
MAPPA coordinator and Mr. Ray Little, Surrey
probation’s public protection manager. Mrs.
Sian West, former governor of HMP High Down,
represented the prison service during 2004-05
 MAPPA AT WORK MAPPA AT WORK MAPPA AT WORK MAPPA AT WORK
Joint visit
brings out
the truth
T a survivor's
he ordeal of a pair of twin
girls began when they were
eight and lasted until they
were 16.
That was when their stepfather, Peter,
was jailed for attempted rape, inde-
cent assault and gross indecency.
He was eventually released on li-
cence to the probation service
having been judged by the Parole
Board to be manageable in the
community
Level 2
He was also registered as a sex of-
fender. Both his probation officer
and the police Registration and As-
sessment officer (RAO) had respon-
sibility to supervise him. Working
together was the key.
Soon after his release, the proba-
tion officer and the RAO visited him
together at his home. The proba-
tion officer knew the full history.
She made sure Peter told it to them
frankly.
Level 2
When a close relative of Peter died
in another part of the country and
he wanted to attend the funeral, the
probation officer liaised with the lo-
cal police to make sure they knew
Peter was in the area. When his
grandchildren visited from abroad,
police, probation and social serv-
ices combined to make sure the
children's parents knew the situa-
tion and that the children could see
their grandfather safely.
Peter remains on licence. He is
completing a long sex offender pro-
gramme and has done well.
The smile that
unlocked
secret
I
t was the wrong smile to the wrong person in the wrong place.
It led to a survivor of abuse telling the secret she had kept for
more than 30 years - and seeing the man who abused her sent
to jail.
For four of her teenage years, Jen-
ny was abused by a man whom
the world knew as an active and
respected worker in the commu-
nity. As a girl, she was unable to
tell anyone as she felt so ashamed
and she lacked the experience to
escape from the control of this ma-
nipulative man.
She experienced emotional turmoil,
depression, a lack of self worth. When
she married, she hid the truth from her
husband, ashamed of her past. Her
parents died, never knowing.
Alert to danger
She felt totally isolated, thinking
she was the only person in the
United Kingdom to whom this had
happened. It was only when oth-
er cases just like hers started to
emerge that she realised that she
wasn’t so unusual after all. She
watched her abuser continue in his
community work fearing he could
be abusing others.
She tried to raise the alarm,
but still she didn’t want her
husband to know. She told her
doctor and talked to telephone
helplines, trying to alert them to
the danger, but could not find
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the strength to go to the police
herself.
Thirty years on, she saw her abus-
er, by chance in a public place. He
smiled at her. It was the smile of
a long-lost friend and it made her
feel that he was drawing her back
into his deception and into his con-
trol once more. Something in her
snapped.
Very upset, but still unable to go to
the police, she turned once more to
her doctor. She finally told her hus-
band who requested immediate help
for her. Surrey Police were contact-
ed. Although it wasn’t easy to find
the right department, a child protec-
tion officer listened and acted.
Accused of lying
For Jenny, it was the start of an
18 month battle to be believed. It
ended in the witness box where she
felt under attack and was accused
of lying. Fortunately, the police had
tracked down other witnesses, in-
cluding more victims and the jury
believed her. Her abuser went to
jail, his reputation destroyed.
She considers herself fortunate to
have received counselling, without
which she does not think she would
 MAPPA AT WORK MAPPA AT WORK MAPPA AT WORK MAPPA AT WORK
have survived. She would like to
see all victims of child abuse of-
fered counselling.
“I cannot praise my counsellor high-
ly enough, but as soon as the trial
was over, the counselling stopped
unless I could pay for it myself,”
said Jenny. “Most survivors can’t".
As his release neared, victim liaison
officers from Surrey Probation con-
tacted Jenny to offer information
about the release and to offer licence
conditions to protect her if she want-
ed them. Her abuser is now on the
agenda of a MAPPA panel as some-
one who committed serious harm.
How serious, only Jenny knows.
Incredibly difficult
She would also like to see it made
easier for victims to disclose, in-
cluding specialist helplines where
people will listen and take action.
“I don’t think people realise how
incredibly difficult it is for vic-
tims to talk about their abuse,
and I had no idea where to go
for help. When victims choose
to disclose, they need easy ac-
cess to people specially trained
in this field and who will take the
appropriate action.”
Jenny is looking forward to the
future. She feels her abuse has
been recognised and she feels
vindicated. A compensation pay-
ment helped. She is back at work
for the first time in years, confi-
dence renewed and doing a job
that helps others and which she
enjoys. Best of all, she knows her
abuser will never get the chance
to abuse a child again.
This article was written only with
Jenny’s permission and coop-
eration. She was given full edito-
rial control and her revisions and
amendments are included.
Protection for
the woman who
called it off
K
enneth was already well known to the MAPPA. He had a his-
tory of severe violence in relationships with women. He had
been the subject of MAPPA meetings when living in Surrey
under the supervision of the probation service.
The service received informa-
tion that he had referred himself as
suicidal to a hospital over a holiday
weekend – over the breakdown, he
claimed, of another relationship. A
level 3 panel was called because of
the possible risks to a woman and
because of the likely need for extra
police resources.
Level 3
Enquiries where Kenneth claimed
to have met the woman drew a
blank. Later police got a call from
an employer in another part of Sur-
rey about a man who had become
involved with one of his young
women employees. She had tried
to break off the relationship but was
being emotionally blackmailed with
threats of self-harm.
Level 3
Police Registration and Assess-
ment Officers visited the em-
ployer and the young woman.
Probation officers stayed in
close touch with Kenneth and the
truth about who the woman was
came out. They told him to keep
well away. Because of concern
that he might attack the young
woman, surveillance equipment
was installed at her home. Ar-
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rangements were made for the
police to respond immediately
if she called. Although Kenneth
did try to contact her, there was
no attack and no threats as had
happened before. After sever-
al weeks of tension, police and
probation staff decided the crisis
was over and that she was safe.
MAPPA operates on three cat-
egories of offenders and three
levels of offender management.
The three categories are regis-
tered sex offenders, other eligi-
ble violent or sexual offenders
and others likely to cause serious
harm through offending.
The levels refer to management
complexity as much as serious-
ness. Level 3 offenders create
situations needing senior man-
agement to coordinate inter
agency work or extra resources
such as accommodation or sur-
veillance that only senior man-
agement can authorise. All
cases causing public concern
or attracting media attention are
dealt with at this level.
Level 2 cases need ordinary in-
ter-agency management and
level 1 cses are dealt with police
or probation alone.
Challenge of
the year ahead
T
he year ahead is likely to see a significant
drop in the number of level 3 panels be-
ing held in Surrey compared with previ-
ous years.
These panels deal with the most serious offenders
causing highest risk of repeating serious harm. In
2003-2004, 25 panels dealing with 17 offenders
were held. This year the number is expected to be
in single figures.
This is because level 3 meetings are being reserved
for the “critical few”. These cases need the presence
of senior managers to cope with complexity, the need
for extra resources, public concern or to manage
media interest. However, the number of level 2
single case special meetings is expected to rise to
deal with urgent cases that need to be discussed
before the next scheduled level 2 meeting.
Streamlined
Level 2 meetings are also likely to become more
streamlined as the police identify lower-risk
registered sex offenders that the divisional police
Registration and Assessment Officers can supervise
on their own. These cases are recategorised to
level 1. Additionally, the probation service has been
encouraged by its national headquarters only to
refer medium risk of repeat offenders where inter-
agency risk management is really needed to avoid
overloading MAPPA with unnecessary cases.
Part of the reason for the advice is to make space for
offenders sentenced to imprisonment under the 2003
Criminal Justice Act and on longer licences or on public
protection sentences, both introduced in April 2005.
Under the the new legislation, ex-prisoners will
be on licence for twice as long, until the end of
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their sentence instead of the three quarter point
as they were under the 1991 Criminal Justice Act.
Consequently they will stay in the MAPPA system
for twice as long.
Additionally, offenders who have committed serious
harm and are judged likely to commit it again can
be sentenced to life sentences and indeterminate
imprisonment for public protection and will not be
released on licence until assessed as safe.
Biggest task
These new sentences will solve a major question
for MAPPA of how to assess and manage offenders
who may cause serious harm when they are no
longer under statutory supervision.
Completing protocols with the Duty to Cooperate
agencies is likely to be the biggest single task of
the new year for the Surrey Strategic Management
Board. With mental health on board during the
last reporting year, attention is likely to turn to
the five primary care trusts and especially the
contribution general practitioners can make to
public protection.
Accommodation
Registered social landlords, many of whom have
inherited the housing stock of local authorities,
will be a further priority area for cooperation. They
control access to most social housing and MAPPA
offenders do not always make attractive tenants or
welcome neighbours. Safe accommodation has
often proved to be the key to risk management and
the support of the registered social landlords will be
sought in keeping it available.
 Surrey leads
the way on
sex offences
orders
S
urrey is leading the
way on inter-agency
collaboration on the new
Sexual Offences Prevention
Orders.
The orders were introduced
in the 2003 Sexual Offences
Act and implemented in 2004
to replace the previous Sex
Offender Orders.
A protocol designed by DC Paul
Falconer of Surrey Police has
been copied to all forces by the
National Criminal Intelligence
Service ( NCIS) as an example
of good practice.
Support
DC Falconer, who is now an
intelligence officer, wrote the
protocol in 2004 when he
worked as Surrey Police’s MAPPA
coordinator. He collaborated
with the Crown Prosecution
Service and Surrey Probation
Area.
Under the protocol, the police
apply to the courts for an
order – known as a SOPO -
when an offender is convicted.
The probation service support
the application in their court
reports where they expect
the offender to remain a risk
after the end of any probation
supervision, or where an
offender committing a contact
offence does not have to
register.
Audit spotlights
level 3 panels
T
he Surrey Strategic Management Board carried out its first
audit in February 2005 under its duty to monitor MAPPA
practice.
It surveyed eight randomly- chosen
MAPPA level 3 panel meetings
and assessed them against 12
criteria drawn from the MAPPA
Guidance.
The panels scored high marks
for concentrating on risk and
for appropriate representation
by other agencies. They also
scored well on indentifying and
examining risk and making de-
cisions relevant to the risk.
However, the audit decided a
more formal system was need-
ed for calling level 2 and 3 pan-
els, among other things to make
sure the right people attended.
Same format
This included creating a pro-
posal form requiring all relevant
information, including specify-
ing the need for the presence of
senior management. The board
also decided on a standard
agenda for level 2 and 3 meet-
ings, based on the model agen-
da in the MAPPA Guidance, and
that minutes should follow the
agenda format.
Chairs of panels were required
to make a brief statement of
purpose at the beginning of the
meeting and make clear un-
der which criteria – complexity,
need for extra resources, public
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concern or media interest – the
panel was being held. Train-
ing for chairs was also recom-
mended.
The board decided that the Sur-
rey Police logo should be re-
moved from MAPPA stationery
and that Surrey MAPPA should
have its own to reflect its multi-
agency nature.
Many of the board’s decisions
have been acted on or are be-
ing written into the revised Sur-
rey MAPPA protocol.
ViSOR goes
on line
The Violent and Sex Offender
Register (ViSOR) compu-
ter database came on line in
Surrey in December and it is
now being used across the
county.
ViSOR is a national system
giving Responsible Authority
agencies access to up-to-
date information – including
a photograph- on registered
sex and violent offenders.
See: ViSOR database aids
register management Page
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O Prisons target
ne of the important ways
in which the Criminal Jus-
tice Act 2003 strength-
ened the MAPPA was to make
the prison service part of the Re-
sponsible Authority with police
and probation in each of the 42
Areas in England and Wales.
The prison service has been
given this enhanced role in rec-
ognition of the important part it
plays in protecting the public by
keeping offenders in custody;
helping them to address the
causes of their offending behav-
iour; and by undertaking other
work to assist their successful
resettlement.
Represented
As part of the Responsible Author-
ity, the prison service is now rep-
resented on each of the Strategic
Management Boards (SMBs) in the
42 Areas.
The prison estate is configured
differently from police/probation
areas. Its establishments are con-
tained within only 12 geographical
areas and two functional areas –
the High Security estate, and Con-
tracted Prisons.
For this reason, arrangements for
prison service representation on
SMBs vary across the country.
However, each area manager has
agreed with local SMBs how the
service will contribute both stra-
tegically and operationally to the
MAPPA.
The main focus of the prison serv-
ice contribution is at an operational
level. A number of measures have
been put in place across the prison
estate to ensure that this will be ef-
fective and result in:
Prompt identification of MAPPA of-
fenders so that their details can be
used in sentence planning arrange-
high-risk
for MAPPA
ments, including interventions to
manage and reduce risk
Regular monitoring of the be-
haviour of those assessed as
presenting the highest risk, and
sharing information with police
and probation colleagues
All relevant risk management in-
formation being provided to multi-
agency meetings which help plan
an offender’s release
At least three months’ notification to
police and probation of the expect-
ed release dates of those offenders
who have been referred to level 3
multi-agency public protection pan-
els (MAPPPs) and at least six weeks’
notification of those being managed
at level 2 risk meetings;
No changes to release dates or ar-
rangements being made without
prior consultation with police and
probation.
Playing an effective role in the
multi-agency risk management of
MAPPA offenders requires good
communication between criminal
justice partners. The prison service
has taken steps to ensure
that there are dedicated points
of contact for public protection at
both area level and in every prison
establishment. These are to be
published together with police and
probation contacts to ensure better
communication across the Respon-
sible Authority.
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With the ever-increasing MAPPA
population and the proportion of
those received into prison likely to
grow with the introduction of the
new public protection sentences,
the inclusion of the prison service
as part of the Responsible Authority
will continue to be vital in protecting
the public.
Contributed by National
Probation Directorate
Ex-deputy governor
leads for prisons
Mr. Jim Benson, a former prison
service deputy governor is Sur-
rey’s new link for MAPPA with the
prison service. He has been ap-
pointed as Risk Assessment and
Management Coordinator for Kent,
Surrey and Sussex . He is taking
the prison service strategic lead
for MAPPA and the Prolific Offend-
ers and Other Priority Offenders
Initiative.
Mr. Benson was deputy governor of
HMP Standford Hill for four years.
He has the full delegated authority
of the prison service area managers
covering Kent Sussex and Surrey
and intends to make sure the prison
service is appropriately represent-
ed in the MAPPA.
ViSOR database aids
register management
T
he number of recorded
registered sex offend-
ers in Surrey remained
the same last year in contrast
to the apparent 33% increase
the previous year.
At the end of March 2005,
there were 371 sex offenders
registered in the county. This
was the same number as at the
end of March 2004 which had
showed an apparent rate of
increase on the year before of
twice the national average.
Balance
Registration began in 1998 after
the 1997 Sex Offences Act. As
the minimum registration period
for convicted adults is five years,
numbers were expected to build
up until the numbers of expiring
registrations balanced the new
ones. Last year’s increase was
attributed mainly to this.
However, this year, - seven
years on from the first registra-
tions – Surrey Police Registra-
tion and Assessment Officers
have noted a big increase in the
pace of registrations lapsing.
Additionally, transferring cases
to the new national Violence
and Sex Offender Register (Vi-
SOR) database - which Surrey
Police helped to pioneer – has
revealed “ghost” registrations
- low risk offenders who have
moved out of the county and
registered elsewhere.
Safest
Detective Superintendent
Brian Boxall, head of Sur-
rey’s Police’s Public Pro-
tection Unit and chair of the
MAPPA Strategic Manage-
ment Board said: “Whilst
there appeared to have been
a significant increase the
previous year, that increase
has not been maintained this
year. The introduction of
ViSOR will ensure that we
are in an even better position
to monitor the registered of-
fenders over the coming
years. Surrey remains one
of the safest counties in the
country with a low number of
registered offenders ”
Levelling
Surrey Police are anticipating
that the combination of ViSOR
and a better balance between
new orders and lapsing orders
will lead to a levelling off in num-
bers. The system will increase
the ability to monitor numbers
both locally and nationally and
highlight any significant increases
or decreases at an earlier stage.
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Detective Superintendent Boxall
added: “ Offenders are only
obliged to register. They are not
obliged to tell us of a move of
address as long as they register
elsewhere within three days.”
ViSOR ensures that offenders
can now be tracked nationally
and vital information can be
passed on to the police in the
new area to ensure better su-
pervision of the individuals”.
Tracked
The Surrey MAPPA dealt with
52 other relevant sexual and
violent offenders, although this
figure is set to increase as Sur-
rey Probation refer more pris-
oners on licence. Fourteen of-
fenders were recalled to prison
for breaches of their licences.
(See Statistical Information,
Page 14 overleaf)
Surrey Police applied for 11
Sexual Offences Prevention
Orders in 2004-05 com-
pared with one the previous
year. Seven were granted.
A police spokesman said
the increase was due to a
more “proactive stance”
Statistical Information No. of Offenders

2003–2004 2004–2005

i. Number of registered sex offenders on 31 March (Cat. 1) 371 371

ii. Number of sex offenders having a registration requirement who were

either cautioned or convicted for breaches of the requirement, between 6 9
1 April and 31 March

iii. Sex Offences Prevention Orders applied for an agained between

1 April and 31 March

(a) Total number of Orders applied for 1 11

(b) Number granted 1 7

(c) Number not granted 0 4

iv. Number of violent and other sexual offenders considered under MAPPA
35 52
during the year 1 April and 31 March (Cat. 2)

v. Number of other offenders dealt with under MAPPA assessed as likely to

4 5
cause serious harm (Cat. 3) 1 April–31 March

vi. Number of offenders dealt with by MAPPA level 3 panels by MAPPA

category

(a) Registered sex offenders (Cat. 1) 8 10

(b) Violent offenders and other sex offenders (Cat. 2) 6 9

(c) Other "serious harm" offenders (Cat. 3) 0 2

viii. Number of offenders in MAPPA returned to custody

(a) For breach of licence 3 14

(b) For breach of Restraining Order or Sex Offences Prevention Order 0 2

(c) Charged with serious sexual or violent offence 1 1

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Contacts
Organisation Address Phone

Surrey Probation Area Bridge House 01483 860191

Director of Operations and Public Flambard Way
Protection Manager Godalming GU7 1JB

Surrey Police Mount Browne 01483 482718

Public Protection Strategy Unit Sandy Lane
Guildford GU3 1HG

Surrey Women’s Aid 01483 776822

and Domestic Violence Helpline

Stop It Now! helpline 0808 1000 900

The W
Wolvercote Centre 46–48 East Street 01372 847160
Epsom
KT17 1HB

Printed by A3 Design & Print (01252) 737222

Prison Service Surrey & Sussex 2nd Floor 02072 172538
Area Office White Rose Court
White Rose Lane
Woking GU22 7PJ

Youth Offending Team Churchill House 01483 723922

Mayford Green
Woking GU22 0PW

Victim Support Scheme Addresses and Telephone Numbers

East Surrey VSS Epsom & District VSS Waverley VSS
Reigate Police Station The Pines 8 Dolphin Close
79 Reigate Road 2 The Parade Haslemere
Reigate RH2 0RY Epsom KT18 5DU GU27 1PU
01737 766323 01372 743650 01252 573351

Esher & District VSS Guildford VSS Runnymede & Elmbridge VSS
Claygate Centre PO Box 26 c/o Addlestone Police Station
Elm Road Guildford Garfield Road
Cobham KT10 0EH GU1 4XN Addlestone, KT15 2NW
01372 470690 01483 503173 01932 855110

Mole Valley VSS North West Surrey VS Staines & Woking

c/o Dorking Police Station 80a Rydens Way Magistrates Court Witness Service
Moores Road Old Woking Staines Magistrates Court
Dorking RH4 2BQ Woking GU22 9DN Knowle Green
01306 875866 01483 770457 Staines TW18 1XH
01784 492299

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