The plans, revealed by Ian Blair, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, will be pioneered in 11 London boroughs from March before being expanded nationally. They grew out of the investigation last year into the murder of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor in Peckham, London.
In a speech on the role of the police in preventing youth crime given to the Youth Board annual convention last month, Mr Blair said, 'With partners in those 11 boroughs, we intend to create an intelligence nexus which will hold sensitive information about large numbers of children, many of whom have not yet and probably will not actually drift into active criminality.
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