Crime figures row as 48 commit serious offence on probation (Police hiding sex-crime stats)
But a row broke out after it emerged that the Ministry of Justice had changed the way the figures are compiled and published, making it impossible to compare the total number of violent and dangerous offenders supervised in 2008-9 with numbers for previous years. In addition the total number of dangerous, violent and sexual offenders under the most intensive supervision are now being counted as a snapshot on March 31 each year rather than the total number monitored throughout the year. The annual report shows that on March 31 2009, there were 898 dangerous offenders under the most intensive supervision...
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