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About the DIP Programme
The Drug Interventions Programme is a key part of the government’s strategy for tackling drugs and reducing crime.
The Programme aims to get adult drug-misusing offenders out of crime and into treatment and other support. Over £600 million has been invested in DIP in the past five years and there is continued central funding to ensure that DIP’s processes become the established way of working with drug-misusing offenders.
DIP provides new ways of working as well as linking pre-existing ones across the criminal justice system, healthcare and drug treatment services and a range of other supporting and rehabilitative services. The programme has introduced a case management approach to offer treatment and support to offenders from the point of arrest to beyond sentencing. Sharing information on the treatment needs of individual offenders allows professional multi-skilled teams to provide tailored solutions.
A critical element of the programme is the delivery of a broad range of effective treatment and wrap around support, which is more cost effective than putting offenders through the criminal justice system repeatedly without support to help them address their drug problem. For every £1 spent on drug treatment, at least £9.50 is saved in health and crime costs.
Through effective alignment with the Prolific and Other Priority Offenders’ (PPO) Programme, DIP can help grip the most problematic offenders, thereby reducing re-offending. The process can help local partnerships to deliver against a range of national targets and, when the two are running effectively alongside each other, they can be crucial building blocks for broader police offender management approaches. The programme recognises that it is important that drug treatment meets the needs of all drug-misusing offenders; individuals who are made up of many facets such as race, gender, culture, faith, age, sexuality, family and social situation and type of drug misuse.
