Lambeth Council outlined the plan last week when it published its gangs action plan.
The scheme is part of Lambeth's plan to address violent crime and will involve intelligence gathering on the most high risk young people followed by swift intervention or enforcement.
The council has teamed up with Lambeth Police to set up the intelligence-gathering unit, to identify young people and then target them with intervention programmes to help them get out of gangs.
In the short term the council and partners hope to reduce youth violence by more than five per cent by March 2009, and increase the proportion of young offenders going on to education and employment by 11 per cent.
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