Greater Manchester Police will take part in a pilot scheme aimed at 'cracking down' on domestic abusers by introducing new, tougher measures, it has been announced.
They are one of three forces nationwide to participate in the trial, which will see courts able to impose requirements such as attendance to perpetrator behaviour change programmes, alongside electronic monitoring and making it mandatory for offenders to notify the police of name and address changes.
The new measures, which are set to come in this summer, will also see coercive and controlling behaviour put on par with physical violence, with offenders that are sentenced to a year or more for the charge to be recorded on a ‘Violent and Sex Offender register'.
