Offenders: Electronic Tagging

(asked on 20th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the maximum number of offenders is who can be tagged and monitored at any one time under the new national GPS tagging of offenders scheme.


Answered by
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Rory Stewart
This question was answered on 28th March 2019

The current national rollout of new GPS technology, will help strengthen supervision, enforce exclusion zones and give victims greater peace of mind.

Legislative and policy guidelines determine which offenders and subjects on bail are eligible to be tagged. Within this framework, decision makers will apply normal, reasonableness, proportionality and necessity tests, along with consideration of the practical outcome that the imposition of the tag is aiming to achieve.

Data from the Department’s GPS pilot indicates that in steady state there will be approx 4000 location monitoring starts a year with a maximum of approx 1000 subjects on a GPS tag at any one time.

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