New police figures show how many registered sex offenders are living in the Stirling area
Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.In the Forth Valley Police Division areas as a whole, which also includes postcodes in the Falkirk Council area, there were a total of 218 registered sex offenders in the community with a further 85 in custody or hospital.Detective Superintendent Paul Cherrie, head of Police Scotland’s National Sex Offender Policing Unit, told the Observer: “Police Scotland, working with our MAPPA (multi-agency public protection arrangements) partners, manages registered sex offenders (RSOs) across all of Scotland’s communities.“Every single offender is assessed and managed in line with the risk they present. Sexual re-offending rates of RSOs remain very low.