These are the main points of the Home Office's five year strategic plan on law and order, Confident Communities in a Secure Britain, which was launched by David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, today

PLEDGE TO CUT CRIME

Target to cut by 15 per cent, or 885,000 offences, the 5.9 million offences reported in England and Wales in 2002-03

Pledge that by 2007-08 the number of crimes which are detected will increase to 1.25 million, from 1.07 million last year

In the 1960s, the decade that Tony Blair has blamed for today's high crime, the number of serious crimes reported each year doubled, rising from around 15 to 30 crimes per 1000 of population.

The rising trend began in 1954, when the figure was 10 per 1000. Reported serious crime peaked in 1992 at 110 per 1000 and today is around 80 per thousand.

TARGETING OFFENDERS, NOT OFFENCES

Under a new prolific offender programme, 5,000 serial offenders, blamed for 9 per cent of crime, will be fitted with a satellite tracking device

Freed paedophiles and other serious offenders will also be fitted with trackers

1,000 drug addicts will be entering drug rehabilitation each week, by the end of 2007-08

In 66 high crime areas, problem drug users will be monitored individually through the justice system

Organised criminals will lose the right to silence and the right to jury trial, and can have their assets seized

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