Doncaster's four Labour MPs have welcomed
the launch of the Criminal Justice Intervention Programme in Doncaster:

April 1st

In a joint statement, Kevin Hughes, Jeff Ennis, Rosie Winterton and Caroline Flint said:

"We believe that this programme is a world first and involves criminal justice, treatment and aftercare agencies working closely together to help individual drug offenders to break the cycle of offending, sentencing and drug-taking in which so many are caught."

Doncaster will get £1,037,005 in 2004/05 to support the programme, part of a national £447 million package over three years.

Launched in April 2003, CJIP uses every opportunity from arrest to sentence to get drug misusing offenders into treatment and break the link between drugs and crime. Now the scheme has been extended to Doncaster. CJIP's aim can be summed up as "Out of Crime, into Treatment."

To find out more about the Criminal Justice Intervention Programme, Click here to visit the CJIP section of the Home Office website.

Related PCT press release:

DRUG-RELATED OFFENDERS TARGETED IN NEW INITIATIVE
CJIP aims to get them out of crime and into treatmen

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