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29 January 2007
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Sex offenders give police the
Police have lost track of more than 300 sex offenders who provided only vague addresses for an official register.
In London 88 sex offenders are missing, 25 in the West Midlands and 18 in the area around Manchester.
Last night there was further embarrassment for the Home Office when a police leader said that the department had been given a warning about the problem three years ago. Jan Berry, chairwoman of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said that the organisation had alerted the Home Office to the issue but it had failed to come up with a solution.
Ms Berry said: “We warned the Government about three years ago when they were reviewing the sex offenders register that some of the addresses that people were giving were sometimes a postcode, sometimes a park bench. I think they listened but I don’t think they had a solution.”
The Government has already been criticised for releasing more than 1,000 foreign prisoners without considering them for deportation and failing to enforce travel bans on 147 imprisoned drug traffickers.
Information from all 50 police forces in Britain obtained under freedom of information laws disclosed that 322 convicted sex offenders have given police the slip.
Convicted sex offenders are placed on the sex offenders register, requiring them to inform police and probation officers of their address and of decisions to stay at other premises.
Latest figures show that there are 29,973 people on the sex offenders register and that there is a 97 per cent compliance rate. But the information supplied to the News of the World shows that offenders have been able to disappear using a loophole that allows them to register vague addresses.
Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Durham and Norfolk police said that they had no missing sex offenders. Dyfed Powys and Gwent police did not provide a figure. All the police forces refused to give details about the sex offenders or how long they had been missing.
Michele Elliott, the founder and director of the child protection charity Kidscape, said that offenders who did not comply with the condition of the register should have their identities made public.
A Home Office spokesman said: “Where an offender appears in breach of their notification requirements the police will update the Police National Computer and the sex offender register to ensure that they are traced and dealt with appropriately.”
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