The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) is the key criminal justice agency involved in engaging substance misusing offenders in drug treatment. It does this through a variety of methods, some coercive, such as the Tough Choices program, and some by more traditional means. Its key partners include police, the probation service, prisons, courts and other criminal justice agencies, as well as the National Treatment Agency and the Department of Health Over four years, there has been over £500 million spent on DIP. It has been shown to be effective in its aims; since 2003, acquisitive crime (which is largely attributed to substance misuse) has fallen by a fifth in the UK. In areas with more intensive DIP activity, early evaluation showed crime falling faster in those areas than areas with less intensive DIPs.

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