The MAPPA Responsible Authority (RA) consists of the Police, Prison and Probation Services. They are charged with the duty and responsibility to ensure that MAPPA is established in their area and for the ongoing assessment and management of risk of all identified MAPPA offenders.
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MAPPA is not a statutory body in itself but is a mechanism through which agencies can better discharge their statutory responsibilities and protect the public in a co-ordinated manner. Agencies at all times retain their full statutory responsibilities and obligations. MAPPA are the statutory arrangements for managing sexual and violent offenders. The following procedures take full account of the requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, Criminal Justice Act 2003, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the MAPPA Statutory Guidance (2017). Level 2 and Level 3 Meetings (including Reviews).
In April 2018 the references and links in this chapter to the MAPPA statutory guidance were updated to link to the 2017 edition of the guidance.