Thank you very much. Offenders, when they come to police attention, often because of an incident that has been reported to us, and depending upon the circumstances, we put the safeguarding measures in place that include things like markers and flags on national systems. Each of the 43 forces and the British Transport Police have their own recording system, but that is mirrored by a system that we call the police national database. If you are flagging or marking an offender in north Wales, then via the police national database, I would be able to see that in Gwent, if that individual becomes active in my community, and the same for south Wales, the same for Dyfed-Powys, the same for Humberside, if somebody moved from there across to our area. So, that flagging of an individual is really important, as is the collection of intelligence about them and then the work that we do to disrupt their organised criminality. So, that's really important.
Where those individuals move into the criminal justice system, then we can monitor and manage them by recognised routes. I think I touched upon MAPPA, which is the multi-agency public protection arrangements for dangerous offenders, and over the lifetime of my career, I've sat on many of those panel meetings where we have been able to put effective management, as multiple agencies, between probation services, police, housing and other agencies, around those offenders who are serial offenders in relation to their activities, but are operating in our communities.
We also have integrated offender management systems. We work specifically here in Wales on the national framework of integrated offender management, so, again, working not at the most serious level, like MAPPA would be, but at that next tier down in relation to integrated offenders. Across Wales, we run the Wales integrated serious and dangerous offender management programme, which is for repeat domestic abuse offenders, so where we see people moving from one relationship to the next with behaviours that really need that control and that intervention around them. Obviously, we pick up some of those within MARAC, which are the multi-agency risk assessment conferences.
So, comprehensively, we have a number of mechanisms in place that deal with the individual and, comprehensively, across the country, we have intelligence systems that speak to each other in order to be able to make sure that the officers on the ground have that information to their hands when they're talking to that offender.
At a local level we also use our force tasking processes to make sure we pick up those individuals who are, again, problematic in our communities. We can put additional measures in place, working with colleagues on a regional and national basis, where we've got individuals who are taking part in organised trafficking, and we do that in terms of it. So, there are ongoing partnership arrangements and that ongoing monitoring, management, intelligence and tasking has an effective relation to understanding where those individuals are and managing them.