ABSTRACT
A hard core of prolific offenders – just 5,000 people – commit around 1 million crimes each year, nearly 10 per cent of all crime. That’s only 15 or 20 people for each of our Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships. Yet they are wreaking havoc. The financial loss is estimated to be at least £2 billion a year … This hard core of offenders may include local gang leaders, drug dealers, vandals, car thieves and others whose prolific anti-social behaviour is causing most harm to local neighbourhoods. We will use the National Intelligence Model to help identification. Once targeted, it will be possible for all of the Agencies concerned to focus, and bear down on, the same key group of offenders. (Blair, 2004: 3; emphasis added)
