Police chief gets £500k boost to fight abuse

THE Government has awarded the police and crime commissioner for Cheshire more than £500,000 in a bid to tackle domestic abuse.

The Home Office announced last Wednesday (August 11) that it has given £11.3 million to 25 PCCs across the country to go towards domestic abuse prevention programmes.

The programmes aim to change behaviours in a bid to help stop perpetrators from committing domestic abuse, preventing further crimes from being committed.

Conservative John Dwyer, Cheshire’s PCC, has been given £538,100 which will go towards two schemes in the area:

l Introduction of the

Best of Me model, which offers an early intervention to tackling perpetrator behaviours before these become pathologised.

l A school-based awareness programme to raise any issues.