Caroline Flint launches £1million drug treatment scheme for Doncaster

10 September 2004

The government-backed Criminal Justice Interventions Programme (CJIP), which is targeting hundreds of offenders across the borough who commit crime to fund a drug habit, has been welcomed by Doncaster Labour MPs.

Said Ms Flint:

"This important initiative for Doncaster aims to take people committing crimes to fund their drug-habit out of crime and into treatment. This initiative is another step in our battle to break the link between drugs and crime.

"The damage drug-related crime does in our communities is huge. I know from experience in my Don Valley constituency, that a person addicted to class A drugs is a mini-crime wave. The Labour Government is determined to reduce crime further, and for every person we move off drugs and keep off drugs, we know there will be fewer victims of burglary and theft."

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Caroline Flint launching CJIP in Doncaster.