Hampshire & Isle of Wight MAPPA Report 2002/03

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Introduction
This is a report of the Hampshire Strategic The report is available in several languages.
Management Board for Multi-Agency Public Apply to Hampshire Probation Service (see
Protection arrangements (MAPPPA). This page 16).
Board is responsible for ensuring that a
We welcome feedback, and if you have any
framework is in place to manage the
comments to make about the report, please
critically few people who live in our area
send them to:
and who could be dangerous to others.
The authors are Hampshire Constabulary National Probation Service
and the National Probation Service – Hampshire Area
Hampshire Area with contributions from Friary House
the other key agencies involved in public Middle Brook Street
protection. It is the second annual report Winchester
and covers the year 1st April 2002 to 31st Hampshire
March 2003. The report describes what SO23 8DQ
happens in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Hampshire Constabulary
to manage people who pose a risk of West Hill Road
causing harm to others; it describes the Romsey Road
work of each agency; it provides some Winchester
statistical data and contact points for Hampshire
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Contents
Foreword 3
The national picture 4
The importance of partnership 4
Involving the public 5
MAPPA offenders 5
What happens in Hampshire & Isle of Wight? 6
Are all dangerous people covered by MAPPPs? 7
What has happened in the last year? 8
What work do we do with victims? 9
What are the roles and responsibilities of the
various agencies involved? 10
Hampshire Constabulary 11
Prison Service 11
Youth Offending Team 11
Local Mental Health Services 11
Housing Authorities 12
How is disclosure used to manage risk? 13
Sex offender orders 13
What is the strategic management of MAPPA? 14
Statistics 14
Offender chart 15
Agency contact points 16

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Foreword
By Paul Goggins, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Community and Custodial
provision in the Home Office
As the recently appointed Minister with
responsibility for the MAPPA, I am pleased
to introduce this, the second, annual
MAPPA report. It is clear that in the last
year (2002/3) the multi-agency public
protection arrangements (the MAPPA)
continued to play an important role in what
remains one of this government’s highest
priorities – the protection of the public
from dangerous offenders.
As someone with many years experience of
working in the field of child protection, I am
particularly impressed by the important
contribution the MAPPA are making to
strengthen collaboration among agencies at
a local level where the focus is on the
dangerous offender.These improvements
must, however, impact on the protection of
children. As the tragic death of Victoria
Climbie showed, an effective multi-agency
partnership is crucial and the MAPPA are
an important element.
To ensure greater consistency in the
MAPPA across the 42 Areas of England and
Wales, and to prepare for the
implementation of measures contained in
the Criminal Justice Bill, we published the
MAPPA Guidance in April. Building on good
practice, that Guidance clarified the
structure of the operational arrangements
as well as the importance of formal review
and monitoring – of which this annual
report is a vital part.The Criminal Justice
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Bill will strengthen the MAPPA in two ways.
First, it will make the involvement of other
agencies part of the statutory framework.
Second, it will introduce the involvement of
lay people – those unconnected with day-
to-day operation of the MAPPA – in
reviewing and monitoring the MAPPA.
Annual reports and this new lay
involvement show the Government’s
commitment to explaining how the often
sensitive and complex work of public
protection is undertaken.
The Government is also strengthening the
protection of the public with other
measures in the Criminal Justice Bill.They
include new sentences for dangerous
offenders to prevent their release if they
continue to be dangerous. Additionally, the
Sexual Offences Bill will tighten up sex
offender registration, introduce a new
offence of ‘grooming’, and enable sex
offender orders to be imposed on violent
offenders who pose a risk of causing
serious sexual harm – thereby extending
sex offender registration to them.
I commend this report to you and
congratulate all the agencies and individuals
who have contributed to the achievement
of the MAPPA in your local Area.
Paul Goggins
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The national picture
This section of the report draws attention to the wider context of the
operation and development of the Multi-Agency Public Protection
Arrangements (the MAPPA).
The most important work undertaken
within the MAPPA is done locally, led by the
police and probation – who act jointly as
the ‘Responsible Authority’ in your Area –
and in each of the 42 Areas of England and
Wales.The experience and good practice
upon which this work is based began in the
North entrance to Bargate, Southampton
1990s – most significantly as a result of the
closer working relationship required by the
Sex Offender Act (1997).The Criminal
Justice and Courts Services Act (2000)
formalised that relationship and built on the
existing experience by requiring the police
and probation services to establish
arrangements (the MAPPA) for assessing
and managing the risks posed by sexual and
violent offenders.The Act also required the
Responsible Authority to publish an annual
report on the operation of those
arrangements.This report, covering April
2002 to March 2003, is the second annual
report.
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The importance of
partnership
Key to the development of the MAPPA in
the past year has been the closer
involvement of other agencies, such as
housing, health and social services, working
alongside police and probation.The truly
multi-agency nature of the MAPPA and the
collaboration which underpins it is to be
strengthened further by the Criminal Justice
Bill.The Bill will place a ‘duty to co-operate’
on a wide range of organisations including
local health authorities and trusts; housing
authorities and registered social landlords;
social services departments; Jobcentres;
Youth Offending Teams; and local education
authorities. In addition, the Prison Service
will join the police and probation services
and become part of the MAPPA
‘Responsible Authority’.
Supporting and co-ordinating the
development of the MAPPA throughout the
42 Areas of England and Wales, is the
National Probation Directorate’s Public
Protection Unit (PPU).This Unit acts as a
central point for advice and, increasingly,
involvement in the management of difficult
cases.These include, for example, UK
citizens who have committed serious
offences abroad and return to this country
without anywhere to live.The Unit is also
able to provide financial support when the
risk management plans make exceptional
demands upon local resources.

Involving the public
MAPPA developments in the next 18
months will also include the appointment
by the Home Secretary of two ‘lay advisers’
to each Area.The eight Areas of England
and Wales which have been piloting these
arrangements since January (Cumbria,
Greater Manchester, Durham, South Wales,
Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey and West
Midlands) report that they add real value.
Lay advisers will contribute to the review
and monitoring of the MAPPA which is
undertaken by each Area’s Strategic
Management Board – the work of which
you can read more in this report.
The purpose of appointing ‘lay advisers’ is
to ensure that communities understand
more of what is done to protect them and
that those involved professionally with the
MAPPA are aware of the views of the
community.The lay advisers will not
Bargate from the South in Southampton
‘represent’ the community in the way, for
example, that local councillors do, nor will
they be involved in operational decision-
making. And, given the sensitivity of much of
what the MAPPA does, especially with the
few offenders who pose a very high risk of
serious harm to the public, it is not
practicable for the general public to be
involved. Lay advisers will, however, ensure
an appropriate and a practical level of
community involvement.
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MAPPA offenders
This year the annual report provides a
more detailed breakdown of the number of
sexual and violent offenders who are
covered by the MAPPA in your Area. As last
year, the figures include the number of
registered sex offenders. Because sex
offender registration is for a minimum of
five years (and generally for much longer)
the figures are cumulative.This is why they
have increased – by 16 per cent in England
and Wales. Only a very small proportion
(about six per cent throughout England and
Wales) are considered to pose such a high
risk or management difficulty that they are
referred to the highest level of the MAPPA
– the Multi-Agency Public Protection Panels
(the MAPPP).
Figures alone do not, of course, tell the
whole story.The anonymised case studies
illustrate the practical work of the MAPPA,
and demonstrate the preventive action
which can be taken. Prior to the MAPPA,
action of this kind was mainly taken by one
agency alone, with the effect that on
occasion offenders’ behaviour which might
have triggered preventative action went
unnoticed.The multi-agency approach of the
MAPPA helps ensure that if an offender
does breach the condition of the licence
under which they were released from
prison or a court order prohibiting certain
activities, then action to enforce the
condition or order and protect the public
can be taken more swiftly.
If you are interested in reading the reports
of other Areas, they will be published on
the National Probation Service’s website:
www.probation.homeoffice.gov.uk
(under the public protection section) with
all of them being available once the last
Area has published its annual report.
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What happens in
Hampshire and the
Isle of Wight?
Whenever a person who is thought to be
an immediate danger to others is in the
community or is due to be released shortly
from prison, the police and probation
service will convene a multi-agency public
protection panel (MAPPP) to plan how to
manage the risk posed by that person.
Senior managers from other key agencies
will be asked to attend the panel, for
example, from Social Services, Prison
Service, Local Authority Housing. If anyone
from any other agency, such as mental
health service, is thought to have useful
information about the person, they will also
be asked to attend the panel. Uniquely, in
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, the
person who is the subject of the panel may
also be asked to attend part of the panel
meeting, and family members may be invited
as well.
All the information known about the
person will be shared so that an assessment
of the risk they pose to anyone else can be
made. The information might be about:
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■ how they have behaved in the past;
■ who their victims were;
■ whether the person is known to be in
contact with others who may be
harmful;
■ whether they are making threats
towards other people;
■ whether they have somewhere suitable
to live;
■ whether they are known to use drugs or
drink alcohol to excess;
■ whether they have a health problem and
are receiving treatment for that
problem.
This will build a picture of what sort of
circumstances and problems may have
played a part in previous offences. If a
similar picture to the past one is emerging,
the panel will probably consider the person
to be at high risk of committing an offence
again. The panel may invite the person to
hear what is being said about them and give
them the chance to comment about their
situation.
This gives a clear signal that it is not just
the police and probation service who are
interested, but a number of other agencies
as well. The panel will agree some actions
that aim to reduce the risk. These may
include, for example, attendance at
treatment programmes, or residence in
hostel accommodation. If, however, the
person is not showing very much
willingness to comply, all the agencies will
be involved in agreeing actions to reduce, as
far as possible, the opportunity to cause
harm. This could include, for example,
police surveillance, court proceedings to
gain a sex offender order or disclosing the
whereabouts of the person to anyone
thought to be at risk.
All the decisions and actions of the panel
will be recorded and a date to meet to
review progress will be set. The panel will
continue to meet until the person is no
longer considered to be a danger to others.

Steven was released from prison to a probation
hostel after he had served six years for rape.
He had little family support, his skills to cope
with life were poor, and there were concerns
about his mental health. A MAPPP was
convened three months prior to his release.
The panel decided that the hostel liaison police
officer should make weekly visits to the hostel
to see Steven, and that Steven’s picture should
also be circulated to local police beat areas.
The probation service planned to work with
social services’ learning disability team to assess
Steven’s suitability for a treatment programme
for his sexual offending. Steven would be
subject to an additional curfew to restrict his
time away from the hostel, and the hostel’s
visiting psychiatrist would see Steven and
report to the next MAPPP meeting. Steven
settled in well initially and got on with other
residents and the staff. However after three
weeks concerns about Steven’s attitude towards
female staff in the hostel caused the MAPPP to
be convened again at short notice. Steven told
the panel that he feared he would commit a
sexual offence in certain circumstances, and
the psychiatrist expressed concern about
Steven’s mental health. The panel considered
all the options, including Steven’s well being and
the protection of the local community. A
decision was made to recall Steven back to
prison where his needs and mental health
would be reassessed.
Portchester
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Are all dangerous
people covered by
MAPPPs?
No. Some potentially dangerous people are
not known to the police or probation or
any other local agency. Some people who
commit very serious crimes have never
given any indication before that they are
likely to do so. It is important to realise
that not all harm can be prevented no
matter how good the assessment and risk
management arrangements are. Also, the
majority of people who are assessed as
possibly being a risk to others, willingly
comply with any arrangements made to
help them overcome their problems, and
therefore they are not viewed as posing an
immediate risk.
The police and probation service manage
these people through ‘normal agency
management’, in the locality where they live
or where they are likely to live when they
are released from prison. Local police and
probation managers meet regularly to
review these cases. Sometimes they will
invite people from other agencies, or family
members or friends who support the
person. People managed in this way are
likely to have developed personal strategies
to control their behaviour themselves. They
may have taken part in treatment and have
learnt some techniques to stop them
behaving as they did before. They comply
with any conditions put on them, and they
report to their probation officer when
required to do so. Joint working, and
monitoring by all the agencies involved,
keeps the risk managed and reduces the
harm likely to be caused to anyone else.
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A 25 year old man was sentenced to two years
for violent disorder. He had assaulted a police
officer during the disorder and threw a brick at
the officer’s face. He had many previous
convictions and was well known for his anti-
authority attitude. On the day of his release
from prison he reported to the local probation
office where he met his supervising probation
officer, a police officer and a representative
from the Local Authority Housing Department.
He quickly realised that he was not just
reporting to his supervising probation officer,
but that others were interested in him as well.
Following frank discussions about what was
expected of him as well as outlining what could
be available to him if he co-operated, he
changed his attitude and made it known that
he wanted to apologise personally to the police
officer he had injured. Since that time he has
not re-offended or come to police notice again.
What has happened
in the last year?
In the summer of 2002, Hilary Benn, the
Home Office Minister, announced that eight
areas had been selected to pilot the
introduction of lay members into the
strategic level of multi-agency public
protection arrangements. Hampshire and
the Isle of Wight is one of those areas.
We appointed two lay members who have
taken on the role of challenging the
professionals about the quality of the
processes that protect the community. As
members of the community they bring
valuable, straight forward thinking to the
arrangements. One member comments:
represented at a strategic level within the
MAPPA, and secondly, to generate trust
within members of the local community
who for a large part are ignorant of the
work being undertaken by all agencies to
ensure their safety’.
The pilot is being evaluated by Manchester
University and the learning from the
scheme will inform a national roll-out.
Another major event during the last year
has been Operation Danforth. This is the
Hampshire Constabulary response to the
intelligence provided from the USA via the
National Criminal Intelligence Service in
respect of the accessing and purchase of
child pornography on the internet.
So far, five people have been identified
within Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in
connection with this operation. Three have
been convicted and sentenced. It is
estimated that more will be dealt with over
the coming months for offences relating to
Operation Danforth, and if convicted, they
will all become registered sex offenders.

‘I am a lay member of the MAPPA Strategic

Management Board. This means that I have
been appointed to represent the members
of the community that the MAPP
arrangements serve to protect. My role, as
I see it, is two fold. Firstly to ensure that
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What work do we do
with victims?
Victims of serious crime may be invited to a
MAPPP or have their views and fears
represented at a MAPPP. Whilst they may
not be able to know all the arrangements
being made to manage the offender in the
community, and indeed they may not want
to know, the priority of everyone involved
in a MAPPP will be to do their best to
protect the victim or any future victims
from further harm.
The probation service has a responsibility
to contact all victims of sexual and violent
crimes where the perpetrator has been
sentenced to 12 months or more in prison.
However, not all offenders will continue to
be a threat to former victims, but staff in
the probation service know that victims
need to be reassured about their personal
safety. Victims are entitled to be kept
informed of the timing of the release, the
general area of release and any conditions
put into a release licence which could
impact on them.
In Hampshire a victim contact unit was set
up to undertake this work. Victim contact
officers ask victims if they wish to be
consulted and if they do, a meeting is
arranged, often taking place in the victim’s
home.
L.K. was the victim of serious harassment from
her former partner, taking the form of verbal
and physical abuse towards herself and
members of her family.This resulted in him
receiving a two-year prison sentence. The
victim was visited by a Victim Contact Officer
and an Officer from the local Probation team. A
meeting was held in time to plan for the
offender’s release at which the victim’s fears
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and ongoing concerns were well represented.
This led to detailed recommendations being
made to the Prison about Licence conditions,
including ‘non-contact’ requirements and
exclusion from certain areas. A Review meeting
just prior to his release confirmed his ‘Risk’
status, and the Victim Contact Officer who
attended the review was able to subsequently
give the victim reassurance about release
arrangements.The offender remains on Licence
and there have been further Reviews which he
has himself attended.There has been no
recurrence of the behaviour which led to his
imprisonment.
Mrs W. was the victim of an offender who
lodged with her elderly mother. She became
increasingly concerned as this man began to
control her mother’s life, with the elderly lady
becoming confined to the house and apparently
losing weight to the extent where she became
emaciated in appearance. Eventually the man
made threats to kill Mrs W. and her husband,
resulting in him receiving a 30-month custodial
sentence. Risk management meetings were
held and through contact with the victims the
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Victim Contact Officer was able to represent

their ongoing concerns. The meeting also read What are the roles
a very abusive and threatening letter which the
offender had recently written to the victims.
and responsibilities
This not only served to confirm the level of risk
which he was felt to pose if he regained his
of the various
liberty but enabled the victims to be protected agencies involved?
from further correspondence.
Serious mental health problems became The aims of the National Probation Service
apparent in prison, and the offender was are:
detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
■ protection of the public
beyond his release date.The man remained at
■ reduction of reoffending
a secure psychiatric unit past the expiry of his
■ proper punishment of offenders
Licence, but the last Review meeting convened
■ ensuring offenders awareness of the
by the Probation Service enabled the Police and
effects of crime on the victims of crime
staff from the psychiatric unit to put in place
and the public
good arrangements to protect the victims as far ■ rehabilitation of offenders
as possible should release become a prospect.
Hampshire Probation Area is part of the
To mark the sensitivity and distinct status of National Probation Service (NPS). The NPS
victim information, all details and record of is a law enforcement agency supervising and
contacts are held separately from the working with offenders in ways that help
offender’s files. Victims have the right of them to stop offending and therefore better
protect the public. Offenders must comply
access to information held on them and
with their supervision. Failure to do so
they are told of this right.
leads them back to Court or back to
prison.
Victims are advised of other support
services in their areas. For example, the In Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, the
Victim Support Service with whom a close probation service, sometimes working with
working relationship has been established. partner agencies, runs a number of
treatment programmes for offenders which
Victim Support is the national charity for help them to change their behaviour. There
people affected by crime. It is an are programmes for sex offenders, for
independent organisation, offering a free violent offenders and for others whose
behaviour is the result of impulse and lack
and confidential service, whether or not a
of proper planning to deal with life’s
crime has been reported. Trained staff and problems. There is a domestic violence
volunteers at local branches offer programme for men who have been violent
information and support to victims, towards their women partners.
witnesses, their families and friends. Victim
Support provides the Witness Service,
based in every criminal court in England
and Wales, to offer assistance before, during
and after a trial. There is also a Victim
Support line – 0845 30 30 900 – which
provides information and support and
details of local services and other relevant
organisations.

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Hampshire
Constabulary
The Hampshire Constabulary is responsible
for providing a policing service across the
two counties of Hampshire and the Isle of
Wight.
The whole area is divided into twelve
territorial Divisions, each under the
command of a Superintendent or Chief
Superintendent in the cases of the cities of
Portsmouth and Southampton. They are
responsible for providing local Policing.
Each Division has a dedicated Potentially
Dangerous Offender (PDO) Officer and an
Inspector responsible for PDO issues. They
work with local colleagues from the
Probation Service and other agencies to
manage the risks posed by Potentially
Dangerous Offenders and Registered Sex
Offenders.
Local work is supported by a central co-
ordination provided by the Intelligence
Directorate at Headquarters who maintain
a central database and act as a centre of
excellence in respect of best practice.
The police provide traditional enforcement.
In this context they work with colleagues
to minimise as far as is humanly possible
the risk that dangerous persons present to
the public.
Other agencies make key contributions to
public protection. Below some of those
agencies describe their involvement:
Prison Service
The Public Protection Committee in one of
our local prisons works to ensure that any
prisoner is correctly identified as posing a
risk to others.
The Committee ensures that these
prisoners are correctly risk assessed as
soon as possible after they arrive at the
prison, and that their sentence plan
addresses the nature of their offending and
the level of risk they pose.
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The Committee ensures that systems are in
place across the prison to monitor mail and
telephone calls which gives a good
indication of whether the prisoner is still
posing a risk to anyone else.
The Committee will identify any prisoner
who continues to pose a high risk to any
member of the public on release from
prison, and that information is sent on to
the local MAPPPs to help with the plan to
manage the person once they are released.
Youth Offending
Team
The Criminal Justice and Court Services
Act 2000 placed a duty upon Youth
Offending Teams (YOT) to co-operate with
the MAPP Arrangements. The Wessex
Youth Offending Team was pleased to be
involved with these arrangements and is
represented on the county Strategic
Management Board. Membership of the
Board has allowed full and up to date
information to be disseminated to the local
area Youth Offending Teams and as a result
MAPP Arrangements are replicated, as far as
possible, within the YOT. Having these
procedures in place allows for improved
risk assessment and management of young
offenders and, working in partnership with
other agencies, greater protection for the
community.
Local Mental Health
Services
Mental Health Services for Hampshire and
the Isle of Wight are provided by four
Trusts, these are:
■ West Hampshire NHS Trust
■ Surrey Hampshire Borders NHS Trust
■ Portsmouth City Primary Care Trust
■ Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust
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Community Mental Health Teams from
these Trusts provide community care for
patients with mental disorder. In addition
West Hampshire NHS Trust provides the
Wessex Forensic Psychiatry Service which
covers the whole of Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight. This is a tertiary service providing
assessments, treatment and consultation to
Criminal Justice System agencies including
Probation, Courts, Prisons and the Police.
It is based at Ravenswood House which is a
75 bed medium secure unit in Fareham.
Community Mental Health Teams and the
Wessex Forensic Psychiatry Service are
invited to MAPPPs where the subject has
had contact with their services. Protocols
exist to ensure appropriate information
sharing when mental health professionals
attend MAPPPs. The majority of subjects at
MAPPPs do not have any mental health
problems and the overwhelming majority of
mental health patients are managed by
Health and Social Services using the Care
Programme Approach.
All of the mental health provider trusts
within Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are
committed to multi-agency working and
recognise the importance of appropriate
involvement of mental health professionals
in MAPPPs. They are also represented at a
senior level, on the MAPPA Strategic
Management Board.
Housing Authorities
Housing Authorities in Hampshire have
statutory responsibilities to assist homeless
people and to consider applications for
housing from people in housing need.
Therefore, they have a key role where
offenders face accommodation issues.
Housing Authorities may be involved in
securing housing for offenders and ensuring
that any accommodation made available is
appropriately sited so that risk to the local
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community is minimised. Housing
Authorities may directly provide
accommodation themselves or act in
partnership with housing associations to
secure housing. When offenders have been
rehoused, Housing Authorities continue to
work together with Police, Probation
Services and other agencies to ensure that
local communities are safe places to live.
Working together is crucially important for
public safety. Multi-agency public protection
arrangements are providing many examples
of where risk is being managed and
reduced.
In 1995 a man was sentenced to five years in
prison for burglary with intent to rape. He had
many previous convictions. He also suffered
from mental ill health. When he was released
he was supported by health workers but had
several breakdowns and was admitted to
hospital. He did not work with people in
authority very easily and so when he was
discharged from hospital a plan was put in
place to include joint home visits by his
probation officer, his mental health outreach
worker and a police officer. This strategy
worked very well and a rapport developed
between the man and the police officer, so
much so that the man contacted the police
officer to say that he had inadvertently
downloaded child pornography on to his
computer. He voluntarily handed over the
computer. However, it was found that he had
downloaded a substantial amount of
pornographic material and he had to be
prosecuted for this. The court took the view
that as he was now co-operating with all
agencies, that he had a good care plan in place
and was at risk of losing all this if he went
back to prison, a community penalty would be
most effective. He has not reoffended for
nearly two years and he still remains subject to
risk management reviews.
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How is disclosure short notice. A protocol exists with the

Court which leads to cases being heard
used to manage some distance away from where the
offender lives.
risk?
At first glance, the wording of the Order
During the past 12 months within one area appears to be draconian in that for a
of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight there minimum period of five years the offender
have been three occasions when disclosure is prohibited from associating or
has been used to protect the community communicating with anyone under 16 years
from dangerous offenders. One occasion of age.
was in connection with a 42 year old man
who had previous convictions for sexual
offences. He was subject to a Sex Offender
Order which required him ‘not to associate
or communicate with children under the
age of 16 years’. He lived about 400 yards
away from a school and because he had
previously offended against boys in their
early teens, the multi-agency public
protection panel decided that it was
essential to disclose information to the
headteacher about the man living in the
area. Following this some intelligence came
from the community indicating that he was
not abiding by his Sex Offender Order. He
was arrested, remanded in custody and
eventually found alternative accommodation Southsea, Portsmouth
that was much more suitable for him, in
another part of the country. One Order has been made for an indefinite
period and, in some cases, the prohibitions
Sex offender orders relate to only males or females.
Nevertheless, Courts themselves have
In Hampshire and the Isle of Wight we now raised the Human Rights implications but
have a total of 10 Sex Offenders Orders have eventually accepted that the wording is
and two Restraining Orders. Our aim is to necessary in order to be effective and is
target only those who need to be made the both proportionate and justified.
subject of the order, and we welcome the
introduction of the interim measures made In summary, those agencies in Hampshire
possible under the Police Reform Act 2002. and the Isle of Wight which deal with Child
The availability of Interim Orders reduces Protection see Sex Offenders Orders and
the sense of urgency which has been a the ability of the Court to now make
feature of previous applications. Interim Prohibitions as an extremely useful
Magistrates’ Courts have been extremely weapon in the armoury of dealing with sex
helpful in making Magistrates available at offenders in the community.

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What is the
strategic
management of
MAPPA?
Oversight of the arrangements put in place
to manage serious sexual, violent and other
dangerous offenders is undertaken by a
Strategic Management Board. This group
comprises senior managers from probation,
police, prison service, social services, health,
housing, courts and the voluntary sector.
During this year, as described in this report,
lay members have also joined the Board.
The Board works on behalf of the
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Chief Officers’
Group to ensure the arrangements are kept
under review and any necessary changes
are implemented speedily.
Statistics
The table indicates the number of offenders
living in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
who have been managed by these
arrangements this year. There are more
registered sex offenders than last year, but
that is to be expected as more people are
sentenced at Court. The registration
period for sex offenders is a long one and
therefore the figure is likely to rise. The
police maintain oversight of the majority of
these sex offenders on the register through
their normal agency procedure. The total
number of offenders considered under the
arrangements during the year 2002/03 are
those who have recently been sentenced or
referred from prison or come to the
attention of agencies through the year.
Some will be newly registered sex
offenders. It can be seen that only a small
proportion of these offenders are
considered to pose an immediate danger to
others and a smaller proportion still, who
re-offend or do not comply with the
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arrangements. It is important to
acknowledge that not all serious harm can
be prevented no matter how good the risk
assessment and risk management
arrangements.
In relation to the three cases who went on
to commit further serious offences, one
was someone who had moved to our area
in the late 1990s. This person was assessed
as being potentially dangerous and was
subject to MAPPPs. This person was
monitored closely before moving on to
another area where further offences were
committed resulting in a sentence of
imprisonment
This case highlighted the effectiveness of a
national model of risk management that
enabled information to be passed from one
area to another.
Another case involved a young person
under 17 years of age who had a long
history of serious inappropriate behaviour.
This young person had been monitored and
due to the information known about this
person, was quickly arrested before more
serious offences were committed.
The third case involved a person who has a
history of not co-operating and being
abusive to staff. This person had previously
been recalled to prison for not co-
operating. On release, use of drugs led to
further unpredictable violent behaviour
which has once again resulted in
imprisonment.
All these cases demonstrate the
effectiveness of MAPPA in enabling early
identification of offenders who continue to
commit serious offences. The system can
never guarantee to stop all further
offending, but is showing that assessments
are accurate and the right people are being
monitored closely. In 2002/03 only two
people out of more than 40 re-offended in
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
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No. of
Offenders

i. The number of registered sex offenders on 31 March 2003 849

ii. The number of sex offenders having a registration requirement who

were either cautioned or convicted for breaches of the requirement, 32
between 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003

iii. The number of Sex Offenders Orders applied for and gained between
1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003

a) The total number of Sex Offenders Orders applied for 4

b) The total number granted 4

c) The total number not granted 0

iv. The number of Restraining Orders issued by the courts between

1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003 for offenders currently managed 1
within MAPPA

v. The number of violent and other sexual offenders considered under

MAPPA during the year 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003 (as defined 272
by section 68 (3), (4) and (5) )

vi. The number of “other offenders” dealt with under MAPPA during the
year 1 April 2002 and 31 March 2003 as being assessed by the
Responsible Authority as posing a risk of serious harm to the public 168
(but who did not fall within either of the other two categories, as
defined by s.67 (2b) )

vii For each of the three categories of offenders covered by the MAPPA
(“registered sex offenders”, “violent and other sex offenders” and
“other offenders”), identify the number of offenders that are or have
been dealt with by:

a) MAPPP – registered sex offenders 19

b) MAPPP – violent and other sex offenders 12

c) MAPPP – other offenders 12

viii. Of the cases managed by the MAPPP during the reporting year what
was the number of offenders:

a) who were returned to custody for breach of licence 3

b) who were returned to custody for breach of a Restraining Order

or Sex Offender Order 2

c) charged with a serious sexual or violent offence 3

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 Hampshire & Isle of Wight MAPPA Report 2002/03

Photographs kindly supplied by Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, Fareham
Borough Council and Isle of Wight County Council

Agency contact points

National Probation Service Friary House 01962 842202
Middle Brook Street
Winchester
SO23 8DQ

Hampshire Constabulary West Hill 01962 841500

Romsey Road
Winchester
SO22 5DB

Hampshire County Council l Trafalgar House 01962 847133

Hampshire Social Services The Castle
Winchester
SO23 8UQ

Southampton City Council Southampton City Council 023 80832621

Southampton Social Services Civic Centre
Southampton
SO14 7LY

Portsmouth City Council Portsmouth City Council 023 92841150

Portsmouth Social Services Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
PO1 2EP

Isle of Wight Social Services 17 Fairlee Road 01983 520600

Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 2EA

Prison Service The Old Warden’s House 01296 424435

21 Bierton Road
Aylesbury
Bucks
HP20 1EH

Wessex Youth Offending Team 85 High Street 01962 876100

Winchester
SO23 9AE

NB: Housing departments

are located within the local
authority offices

Ocean Village Marina

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