Security for victims of serious crime in region

RESTRICTION ZONES TO KEEP VIOLENT AND SEXUAL OFFENDERS AT BAY

- GURDIP THANDI

NEW Restriction Zones will help victims of serious sexual and violent offences in the West Midlands ‘rebuild their lives with greater security.

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster and Victims’ Advocate Natalie Queiroz said the new Government plans will help empower and protect people from the most serious offenders.

Restriction Zones will ensure offenders have to remain in certain areas as opposed to being banned from the vicinity of their victim's home address.

It means victims will now be able to travel anywhere, free from the anxiety, fear and intimidation of meeting their offender in public.

Police bosses said the new plans will go further than ‘exclusion zones’ which are currently in place.