Sex register ‘is top priority’

TWENTY-FIVE high-risk sex offenders who require close monitoring are currently unsupervised in the Island.

Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand has revealed the number of high-risk offenders currently living unsupervised in the Island – and has claimed that there are up to 250 people in
Jersey who should be on a sex offenders’ register.

Asked at a Scrutiny hearing this week when a register would be established in Jersey, the former Magistrate insisted that the matter was his top priority and that he was keen to take something to the States in the next few months.

It is estimated that 250 potential paedophiles should be on the list and that 25 of them are high-risk offenders. Currently, offenders can be monitored only if they agree that the police can watch them.(from JEP)

It needs to be sorted how can these people be allowed to go around unsupervised..

And I suspect that there is a similiar need for a register in Guernsey and the other Islands..... It has been spoken about and there appears to have been some political interest in some quarters but we are still waiting!!




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there doesnt seem to be a will for a sex offenders register in some quarters of our government.we need one now not years down the line

Thistle is right, after all the bad press regarding child abuses historic and otherwise, Jersey still has no sex offenders register. You would thik this would have been moved to the top of the list.

One can only wonder why ?

BB

Here is the proof, all information shown is in the public domain.


TWENTY-FIVE high-risk sex offenders who require close monitoring are currently unsupervised in the Island, and has claimed that there are up to 250 people in
Jersey who should be on a sex offenders’ register.

Asked at a Scrutiny hearing this week when a register would be established in Jersey, the former Magistrate insisted that the matter was his top priority and that he was keen to take something to the States in the next few months.Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand has revealed the number of high-risk offenders
It is estimated that 250 potential paedophiles should be on the list and that 25 of them are high-risk offenders.

Currently, offenders can be monitored only if they agree that the police can watch them.

Article posted on 11th July, 2009 - 3.00pm


Michel
Posted July 11, 2009 at 4:35 pm
This was already TOP PRIORITY LAST YEAR. I can recall, that there were many many promises that the the register will be in place by the beginning of 2009! Nothing in place since.
This will only affect those who the AG allows to go through the criminal justice system. So it is an imperfect instrument.
A complete overhaul of the judiciary is what is needed as ‘a priority’
JEP on line.
http://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/07/11/sex-register-is-top-priority/
BB