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<p>People who have been convicted of one of the offences specified in Schedule 15
to the Criminal Justice Act 2003, including stalking involving fear of violence or
serious alarm or distress, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and wounding with
intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and who have been sentenced to 12 months or
more of imprisonment or youth detention or who have been detained under the Mental
Health Act 1983, are automatically managed under Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements
(MAPPA). Of those people, those who pose a higher risk of harm - where formal multi-agency
meetings are held to inform the shared Risk Management Plan - are included on the
ViSOR Dangerous Persons Database.</p><p>People who do not meet those criteria, but
who have been convicted or cautioned for, or reprimanded or warned about, an offence
which indicates that they pose a risk of serious harm to the public, and who are considered
by the MAPPA agencies to require the active involvement of several agencies via regular
multi-agency public protection meetings, are also managed under MAPPA and included
on ViSOR. Additionally, a person who has not been convicted of an offence, but whose
behaviour gives reasonable grounds for believing that there is a likelihood of them
committing an offence which will cause serious harm (known as a Potentially Dangerous
Person), may also be included on ViSOR.</p><p>The College of Policing has issued guidance
to police forces on the ‘Identification, assessment and management of serial or potentially
dangerous domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators’. The key principles set out that
forces should have processes in place to identify serial or potentially dangerous
domestic abuse or stalking perpetrators and ensure that information about the perpetrator
is recorded on the Police National Computer, the Police National Database or ViSOR
as appropriate.</p>
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