Merseyside's most notorious criminals will be monitored for years after they are freed from jail as part of efforts to prevent them from further trouble.
Some will have to surrender their passports while others will face bans on meeting criminal pals due to crime prevention orders won by the National Crime Agency.
Further restrictions include limits on how much cash they can have and the number of mobile phones they can hold.
Curtis Warren and the Fitzgibbon brothers are among more than two dozen Merseyside offenders who are - or will be - subject to stringent rules.
The restrictions are designed to prevent hard core criminals from returning to their old businesses after they have left jail and include Serious Crime Prevention Orders (SCPO), Financial Reporting Orders (FRO) and and Travel Reporting Orders (TRO).
An SCPO can restrict the number of mobile phones someone has, the bank accounts they operate, where they can go and who they deal with.
Breaching the order can lead to a five year jail sentence.
Former drug smuggler Stephen Potter, who remains on the watchlist, is one of those to have fallen foul of an SCPO breach.
The 46-year-old, formerly of St Helens, was given the order when he was released from a six year sentence for an elaborate plot to smuggle cannabis in crates of onions.
He was made subject to a series of conditions regarding his phone use and, when police were called to a domestic in his new home on Teeside, officers saw him playing with an iPhone when they arrived.
He broke the phone and was arrested.
Potter pleaded guilty to five breaches of the SCPO, including offences of possessing, controlling or using more than one mobile phone, possessing a SIM card and a Nokia phone without notifying NCA officers, and possessing an iPhone which was not registered with the NCA and could not retain or display its internet use.
He was jailed for eight months in June of last year.
FROs mean the subject must report all their financial transactions, accounts, and assets, while TROs limit travel.
More than a dozen of those hit with orders on Merseyside are now living under their conditions, while others will be subject to the scrutiny when they are released from jail.
Among those hit with orders are:
The gold bullion shipment that never was
Avis was jailed for 12 years in 2017 after his £500k heroin and cocaine smuggling plot was busted.
The 66-year-old was arrested in a side street in the Belgian city of Antwerp minutes after he and an associate were spotted handing over a black holdall to two other men.
Those men were stopped soon after and, while the holdall was found to be empty, 13kgs of drugs were found hidden in the van they were travelling in.
It was a plot that revealed how Avis had failed to learn from his past.
In 1998 he was sentenced to 22 years in prison after being found guilty of a plot to bring 32kg of ecstasy into the UK, again from Belgium, but this time in a light aircraft.
Avis, of Holmefield Road in Aigburth, was branded the “principal” figure in the plan to flood the country with 110,000 tablets.
He had denied involvement in the drugs conspiracy, instead claiming he thought the plane used for smuggling was loaded with gold bullion.
Avis will be the subject of an SCPO linked to travel, vehicles and communication devices when he is released.
The Colombia connection
The key figures in one of the biggest drugs conspiracies ever busted in the UK remain under stringent restrictions almost a decade since their sentencing.
Led by Paul Alan Taylor, the gang plotted the importation of 40 tonnes of cocaine from Colombia, via Venezuela, with the illegal loads stashed in tins of fish or wood pellets.
But their squabbling allowed time for detectives to foil their plan, which was overseen from a public telephone box on Old Hall Street in Liverpool city centre.
The drugs could have been worth up to £4bn had they reached Merseyside.
Taylor, from Vauxhall, used the phone box to contact London associate Mehmet Baybasin.
The pair, along with Taylor's partners in crime Anthony Geraghty, Gerard Shields and James Fairbrother and other members of Baybasin's London network, have all been hit with crime prevention orders.
Taylor, who was of Paul Orr Court when he was jailed for 22 years, is now 63 and will be subject to an SCPO and TRO when he is released.
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Beybasin, who was of Fairfield Crescent, Edgeware, Middlesex when he was given 30 years behind bars, is now 56 and will be subject to an SCPO and TRO when he is released.
Geraghty, 49, will be subject to an SCPO, FRO and TRO upon release. He was of Jason Walk in Everton when he was jailed for 20 years.
Shields, who was of Commercial Road, Kirkdale, when he was jailed for 14 years, is now 38 and, having been released, is subject to an FRO.
James Samuel Fairbrother, who was of Paul Orr Court, Vauxhall when he was jailed for 15 years, is now 61 and, having also been released, is subject to an SCPO and TRO.
The Fitzgibbon family
Jason and Ian Fitzgibbon were both jailed in 2013 after it emerged they were plotting to flood the UK with heroin.
When Turkish police smashed an Istanbul-based drugs gang, the trail began to lead back to south Liverpool.
Manchester Crown Court heard the 60% pure heroin would have cost around 300,000 Euros to buy wholesale from Turkey.
The drugs would have made around £7m when sold on the streets of Liverpool.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), a forerunner of the NCA, then mounted a sophisticated surveillance operation to take down the Fitzgibbons.
A covert listening bug was planted in their mum's home, which recorded the brothers talking about crime and drugs - and even arguing over who was the better criminal.
Jason, of North Sudley Road, Aigburth, and Ian, of Heigham Gardens, St Helens, were jailed for 14-and-a-half and 16 years respectively after admitting their roles in the conspiracy.
Ian also admitted an £800k plot to flood Merseyside with 168,000 ecstasy tablets.
Officers seized carrier bags containing £182,800 in cash hidden under floorboards and in the central column of a dining room table at the family home in Edale Road, Mossley Hill.
Christine Fitzgibbon, of Edale Road, admitted money laundering and was jailed for two years.
All three have been hit with crime prevention orders.
Jason, 47, will be the subject of an SCPO, FRO and TRO when he is released; Ian, 45, will also be subject to all three when released.
Christine, 66, is the subject of an FRO.
Curtis Warren
One of the UK's most notorious criminals, Curtis Warren is serving a jail sentence for attempting to smuggle cannabis into Jersey.
He was sentenced to 13 years over the £1m conspiracy - though Interpol's former most wanted has always maintained he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice.
The 56-year-old has since been handed an extra 10 years after failing to pay back a £198m fortune investigators believe he made from global dealing.
The Jersey conspiracy came after he was released from a Dutch prison after serving part of a 12-year sentence for importing 317kg of cocaine into Holland and possessing MDMA, cannabis, guns, hand grenades and CS canisters.
He also served additional time for the manslaughter of a fellow inmate, a convicted Turkish killer.
Still locked up, when he is released he will be hit with an SCPO that will limit his ability to communicate with others, travel and control cash and assets.
The old school drug smuggler
Milton Soares was jailed after acting as a go-between for Colombian drug cartels seeking to sell huge amounts of cocaine in the UK.
He lived on Silverwell Road, Croxteth and did not display any outward signs of wealth.
But his business as an international drug facilitator took him to South America and Europe - where he claimed he had twenty years of contacts with some of the most powerful kingpins in the world.
Soares, whose real name was John Milton Evans, and was originally from Ebbw Vale, south Wales, spent time in prisons in Miami, Geneva and England for drug importation offences dating from the 1970s and then in Amsterdam following a manslaughter conviction and subsequent nine year sentence.
It was there he met the head of a Colombian drug ring who became a conduit for further conspiracies to import cocaine into Britain and sell the drugs on the streets of Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle.
But another man, “Oli”, who he met in a casino in Panama and chose as a potential buyer for the UK market turned out to be an undercover policeman who spied on him for a year.
During that time Soares, who said he was a professional photographer, talked about bringing in hundreds of kilos of cocaine using human couriers or hidden in cans of fish, scrap metal and the legs of oil drilling platforms.
Soares was jailed for 14 years and eight months in 2013.
The 66-year-old's TRO will ban him from overseas travel when he is released.
Who else is subject to crime prevention orders?
(Name; Month of birth; Type of order; Offence the order is linked to; address order associated with)
- Paul Allan (Allen); May 1969; TRO; Class A, B and C drugs; L25
- Mark Ronald Brown; January 1965; FRO/TRO; Class A drugs; L36
- Ronald George Campion; June 1968; SCPO;TRO/FRO; Fraud; L23
- James Carroll, October 1961; FRO/TRO; Drugs; Prescot, L35
- Philip Cray; April 1963; SCPO; Drugs, Walton, L4
- Ian Craig Dunn; December 1977; FRO; Class A and B drugs; Birkenhead, CH47
- Paul John Dunn; April 1981; FRO/TRP; Class A and B drugs; Birkenhead, CH47
- Darren Hunter; March 1968; SCPO; Drugs; St Helens, WA9
- Edward Robert Jarvis; April 1965; FRO; Drugs; L6
- Paul Knight; September 1963; SCPO; Class A drugs; Runcorn, WA7
- Robert David Loughlin; August 1983; TRO; Class A, B and C drugs; L10
- Stephen Potter; September 1972; SCPO; Class B Drugs; St Helens, WA9
- David Preston; December 1964; FRO; Class A drugs; Prescot, L34
- Gary Joseph Vincent Shields; July 1960; TRO; Class A, B and C drugs; Brighton-le-Sands, L22
- Mark Smith; October 1984; SCPO/FRO; Class A drugs; Norris Green, L11
- Neil Daniel Smith; February 1961; SCPO/FRO; Class A drugs; L16
