Stalkers and domestic abusers to be targeted by £39m police funding boost

Safeguarding minister Sarah Dines said it would provide ‘hands-on money’ for psychologists and police officers to ‘carefully monitor these people’.

Stalkers and domestic abusers will be targeted by police after forces were handed a £39 million funding boost by the Home Office (Alamy/PA)

Stalkers and domestic abusers will be targeted by police after forces were handed a £39 million funding boost by the Home Office.

The money will pay for 50 projects across England and Wales, including pilots aimed at preventing reoffending and better protecting victims, which will be rolled out over the next two years.

Safeguarding minister Sarah Dines told ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB) that it was “hands-on money, with psychologists and police officers to carefully monitor these people”.