As of 1 February 2008 the number of sex offenders in custody assessed under the multi-agency sex offender risk assessment and management (MASRAM) arrangements is shown in the following table.
Number Category 1 (low risk) 6 Category 2 (medium risk) 79 Category 3 (high risk) 30
The following table updates the information provided in the annual report ‘Managing the Risk’ published last year by the Northern Ireland Sex Offender Strategic Management Committee. It also provides information on risk categories of offenders assessed under the MASRAM arrangements resident in police command areas as at 26 February 2008.
Police command area Category 1 (low risk) Category 2 (medium risk) Category 3 (high risk) Total Antrim 18 4 0 22 Ards 19 6 0 25 Armagh 14 6 0 20 Ballymena 21 5 0 26 Ballymoney 8 3 0 11 Banbridge 10 2 0 12 Carrickfergus 8 1 0 9 Castlereagh 9 5 0 14 Coleraine 20 12 0 32 Cookstown 2 3 0 5 Craigavon 26 13 0 39 Down 26 8 1 35 Dungannon and South Tyrone 6 3 0 9 East Belfast 23 12 0 35 Fermanagh 13 13 0 26 Foyle 29 22 0 51 Lame 7 1 0 8 Lisburn 29 12 0 41 Limavady 6 8 0 14 Magherafelt 3 4 0 7 Moyle 3 2 0 5 Newtownabbey 13 6 0 19 Newry and Mourne 18 10 0 28 North Belfast 38 16 2 56 North Down 23 14 0 37 Omagh 13 9 1 23 South Belfast 64 50 2 116 Strabane 11 4 0 15 West Belfast 14 3 0 17