SIX hundred sex offenders are currently being monitored across Cumbria, new figures confirm. The shocking figure is revealed today following a Freedom of Information request which lays bare the scale of the risk management being faced every day by the county’s police force. There are currently 13 full-time offender managers whose job it is to monitor registered sex offenders. Among the tools they use are ‘polygraph’ (lie-detector) devices. Senior officers have stressed that there are more police officers than just those in the core team working to manage the risk posed by the county’s sex criminals. All people convicted of a sex offence must register with the police within three days of their conviction or release from prison, imprisonment or service detention, discharge from hospital, or return to the UK.