Drug Interventions Programme
Strategy
The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) was introduced by the Home Office and its partners in 2003, with new elements phased in each year since. Most interventions operate right across England and Wales, while additional 'intensive' elements operate in those areas with the highest acquisitive crime.
Over £900 million has been invested in DIP since 2003 and there is continued central funding to ensure that DIP’s processes become the established way of working with drug-misusing offenders.
It incorporates partnership working across the criminal justice system, healthcare and drug treatment services and a range of other supporting and rehabilitative services. As the benefits are realised in evidenced crime reduction, some areas are now showing interest in investing local funding to operate the ‘intensive’ elements of DIP that cannot be centrally funded.
Download a document showing where each element of the program operates.
