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Yahoo
13-04-2025
- Yahoo
Five sent to prison as GMP use new police powers
Greater Manchester Police have used new powers aimed at protecting victims of domestic abuse 119 times over the last four months. The Domestic Abuse Protection Orders (DAPOs) are being trialled in Greater Manchester having started in Bury last November. The new type of order which prohibits contact between victims and their abusers has now been rolled out in Wigan and Manchester too. So far, 119 DAPOs have been issued across the three boroughs with 45 breaches identified, resulting in five men being sent to prison. READ MORE: 'You just sack it off and Uber': The 'rammed' tram stop commuters 'struggle' to get home from READ MORE: Mum 'really shook up' after man's reaction to her daughter in Sainsbury's It comes as the Manchester Evening News campaigns for change in memory of a woman the criminal justice system failed to protect. Caroline Gore, 44, was brutally stabbed to death by her abusive ex-partner at her flat in Wigan in October 2023, less than four weeks after he was spared jail for yet another breach of his restraining order. The M.E.N. is calling for a mandatory minimum prison sentence for perpetrators who breach protective orders like the one David Liptrot repeatedly ignored and was allowed to get away with. Our petition, which has been signed by more than 75,000 people and has been raised in Parliament, also calls for proper monitoring of people with protective orders including through electronic tagging. This is now an option under the new DAPO regime which, unlike restraining orders, allows courts to impose positive requirements too. Back in February, Christopher Cullen, 36, from Bury was among the first to be issued a DAPO which involved electronic monitoring. His case is one of 119 in which GMP have managed to secure a DAPO during the first four months of the pilot as one of the three participating forces. The orders can be made by a court during criminal, family, or civil proceedings with the police, the victims themselves or a third party able to apply for them. Not only do DAPOs allow the police to intervene without the victim's support, they require regular checks by officers who make sure the orders are being adhered to. By the end of March, 45 breaches had been identified, most of which were related to offenders failing to register as required. However, five men who breached their order by contacting the victim have been jailed with prison sentences ranging from 14 weeks to four years. The government says it wants the DAPOs to become the new 'go-to' order for domestic abuse cases, replacing Domestic Violence Protection Orders which can only be enforced for a maximum of 28 days while there is no time limit on the new type of order. All victims of domestic abuse are encouraged to come forward to the police by calling 999 in an emergency or 101. Those who would prefer not to speak about their experience over the phone, or are not in a position to in that moment, can use the Live Chat service on GMP's website. Support is also available through the Greater Manchester domestic abuse helpline which is available from Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm, except bank holidays. This helpline is available for anyone experiencing domestic abuse and includes a language service and advice for the LGBT community. For more information about help available in different areas across Greater Manchester visit the End the Fear website.
South China Morning Post
21-03-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
ByteDance advances DeepSeek work in AI reasoning with open-source project led by intern
TikTok owner ByteDance, which has invested heavily in artificial intelligence (AI), has unveiled a new system that claims to improve on the work done by DeepSeek in training AI reasoning models. Advertisement DAPO, or Decoupled Clip and Dynamic Sampling Policy Optimisation, is a scalable reinforcement learning algorithm that helps a large language model (LLM) achieve better complex reasoning behaviour such as self-verification and iterative refinement, according to a research paper published earlier this week by ByteDance and Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research. The algorithm outperformed the reinforcement learning approach in DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model, scoring 50 points in the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) 2024 using Alibaba Group Holding's Qwen2.5-32B base model, compared with 47 points attained by R1 when applying the same Alibaba model, the paper showed. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post. Notably, DAPO achieved the better result with 50 per cent fewer training steps. TikTok owner ByteDance has invested heavily in artificial intelligence. Photo: Digitimes The achievement drew positive academic and industry comments. Google DeepMind engineer Philipp Schmid, who shared the project on X, said the new method was 'better than' DeepSeek's 'group relative policy optimisation (GRPO)' in reinforcement learning. GRPO is one of DeepSeek's training methods that enables a model to learn by comparing different actions and making updates with a 'group' of observations.
BBC News
12-03-2025
- BBC News
Manchester: Domestic abuse pilot scheme 'saved woman's life'
A domestic abuse victim said a new type of order designed to protect victims from violent partners may have saved her life. Anne, which is not the woman's real name, said she had suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her partner. But he was then made subject of a Domestic Abuse Protection Order (DAPO)as part of a pilot in Bury, Wigan and Manchester. The orders can run for any length of time and those who breach them can face up to five years in prison. About 60 DAPOs have been issued across the three pilot areas since November. A DAPO can be granted for any length of time and can be enforced by police, a third party or even victims themselves without the need to attend court. Anne said she would often have bruises on her arms and her hair would be said: "As the relationship went on, it got more and more degrading, more abusive."The police officers said we are going to be carrying you out."Her partner would be arrested, but then Anne would drop the charges. He later received a DAPO order from Greater Manchester Police. Det Supt Keith Galley, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "As long as we can ensure there has been some kind of abuse, even if it is physical or mental in that relationship then we can apply for these orders, and it really opens up the scope of which victims we can help now."Anne said she was "getting there slowly but surely"."I think there are still going to be hurdles but I know I have got the DAPO team and support of my friends to get me through it," she Home Office said it would be monitoring the progress of the pilot scheme. If you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line. Listen to the best of BBC Radio Manchester on Sounds and follow BBC Manchester on Facebook, X, and Instagram and watch BBC North West Tonight on BBC iPlayer.
