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| A new multi-agency team has been set up in Northern Ireland to monitor the most dangerous sexual and violent offenders after they are released from prison. | A new multi-agency team has been set up in Northern Ireland to monitor the most dangerous sexual and violent offenders after they are released from prison. |
| The team will include members of the police, the Probation Service and members of the social services. | |
| Criminal Justice Minister Paul Goggins said it would make it easier to track potentially dangerous people. | |
| It will also make it easier for the PSNI and Garda to track offenders who move over the border. | |
| "This is another initiative to strengthen the way we reduce the risk from serious offenders," he said. | "This is another initiative to strengthen the way we reduce the risk from serious offenders," he said. |