04 January 2007
In Brief
The UK and Ireland have signed a new memorandum of understanding to ensure information about sex offenders travelling between the two countries is shared. In the UK and Ireland anyone on the sex offenders register must inform police of where and when they intend to travel abroad if it is over a certain length of time. Home Office minister, Vernon Coaker, says the agreement is a ‘world first’ and means that police will
always know when a convicted sex offender is travelling between the two countries. Coaker adds: “We are continuing to work on similar arrangements with other countries but they will need to develop their systems further for this to become a reality.”
