Merseyside’s force-wide SVRO pilot will ‘put offenders on the back foot’

7th March 2023Sarah Gibbons, Contributing Editor, Policing Insight

Four pilots of Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) are now underway in England and Wales, but only in Merseyside are the powers being trialled force-wide; Policing Insight’s Sarah Gibbons spoke to Supt Phil Mullally about the impact of SVROs, the use of associated stop and search powers, and the potential for the orders to reduce violent crime.