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health and reducing their offending
behaviour. Key to this would be treating
people as individuals, not as a problem
group. According to Gerald Connor,
community safety officer at Bassetlaw
DC, ‘the idea was meeting people where
they are – wherever they live, socialise
and interact with their friends and
community.