Labour would use counter-terror tactics to monitor 1,000 most dangerous abusers

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Police would be asked to use counter-terror style tactics to monitor the 1,000 most dangerous abusers and sex offenders in England and Wales under a Labour government.Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said officers would be told to “relentlessly pursue” perpetrators who pose the greatest risk to women and girls using “all the tools at their disposal”.Under the plans, forces would use data and intelligence on named suspects and repeat offenders of rape, stalking and domestic abuse to devise a matrix of the most dangerous perpetrators in their area.It forms part of Labour’s mission to halve incidents of violence against women and girls in a decade.The party believes this would enable police across England and Wales to identify the 1,000 most dangerous alleged perpetrators, including those accused of murder or attempted murder.The new approach would be designed to encourage policing and criminal justice systems to look more at wider patterns of behaviour rather than individual incidents, Labour said.“Despite the seriousness of the multiple allegations and intelligence against them, too often no further action is taken, leaving them free to abuse or rape again,” the party said.Ms Cooper will lay out the proposals in more detail at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, where MPs, delegates and lobbyists are gathering this weekend for five days of policy debate, rallies and networking.Forces will be asked to systematically rank high-risk suspects according to the frequency, recency and severity of allegations made against them.Once identified, Labour says those perpetrators should be targeted with the full armoury of police resources, including the tactics and tools normally reserved for counter-terror and organised