Programme Challenger is Greater Manchester’s partnership response to serious and organised crime. We are made up of many different agencies, who all work together to support the relentless pursuit of disrupting serious and organised crime, as well as reducing risk to vulnerable people and stopping people becoming victims in the first place. It brings together expertise from across a variety of public, private and voluntary sector organisations to share information and insight and appropriately target resources and activity. To enable the wider partnership, there are dedicated resources that provide centralised, multi-agency coordination and support to the whole system in Greater Manchester to tackle serious and organised crime. It provides capacity and capabilities not held locally to enhance provision and enables the strategic aims and objectives of Challenger to be delivered.
This is what they do:
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