Electronic Tagging
(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of GPS tagging on the efficacy of monitoring of offenders released on probation.
This question was answered on 25th March 2015
Electronic location monitoring may discourage offenders from committing further offences, because of their perception that location data could link them to the offence. We believe there could be benefits in terms of reduced re-offending, public protection, and crime detection and investigation by the police.