‘Paedophiles guilty of lower level offenses should be diverted to mental health treatment programs rather than prisons, a senior police chief has suggested.
Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, president of the Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales, has called for a different approach to rehabilitating those who have viewed indecent images of children online but have not committed contact offenses.
Citing the rapidly growing sex offenders’ register, Thomas warned that police do not have the resources to properly monitor all of those on the list.’
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