Offender GPS Monitoring Set to Expand in the UK

Offender GPS Monitoring Set to Expand in the UK

Thousands of criminals in England and Wales will be tagged with GPS trackers to allow authorities to trace them 24 hours a day.Currently, electronic tags are linked to a box at a fixed address, such as an offender’s home, with alerts generated if they are not there at certain hours.

But the new location tags will track a person’s movements wherever they go.

Justice Secretary David Gauke said the tags will better protect victims of domestic abuse or stalking.

Around 60,000 offenders currently wear these standard tags in England and Wales.

The GPS tags, which cost £9 a day, will be rolled out everywhere in England and Wales from this summer.

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After a 17 month pilot program, the British government is set to impose a new restriction on recently released offenders and those who are free pending resolution of their case. Different from standard electronic tags, which are used primarily as an oversight and accountability tool to ensure that a person adheres to a strict curfew, these new tags are designed to be more active than passive. Through this technology, an offender’s activities will be closely monitored for abnormal behavior. Any breach of the established rules would result in the offender being returned to prison or brought before the courts to answer for their misdeeds.

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