‘Two former executives at the private security company Serco have been cleared of concealing £12m in profits from electronically tagging criminals.’
BBC News, 26th April 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sobriety tags and drinking bans aimed at reducing alcohol-fuelled crimes launch in England today (Wednesday 31 March), following a successful rollout in Wales.’
Ministry of Justice, 31st March 2021
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘Prolific burglars, robbers and thieves are to be tagged with GPS trackers in a bid to stop them reoffending.’
BBC News, 17th March 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Domestic abuse offenders who have served a prison sentence will be tagged with a GPS tracking device in London under new a pilot project.’
The Guardian, 9th March 2021
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told “we don’t want your coronavirus in our country”.’
BBC News, 27th January 2021
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Security firm G4S has been fined £44m by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) as part of an agreement that will see it avoid prosecution for overcharging the Ministry of Justice for the electronic tagging of offenders, some of whom had died.’
The Guardian, 10th July 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Following the completion of a pilot of the Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement (AAMR), section 76 of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 will come into force on 19 May 2020 (UKSI no.478 of 2020). Section 76 inserts a new section 212A to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (“CJA 2003”), which empowers the court to impose an AAMR as a requirement of a community order or suspended sentence order.’
5SAH, 12th May 2020
Source: www.5sah.co.uk
‘Around 2,000 offenders who commit crimes fuelled by alcohol are to be fitted with ankle tags to monitor whether they have been drinking.’
BBC News, 19th May 2020
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘As many as 4,000 prisoners in England and Wales are to be temporarily released from jail in an effort to try and control the spread of coronavirus, the government has announced.’
The Guardian, 4th April 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Employee monitoring and surveillance can be a thorny issue. Some monitoring of employee activity may be required for reasons of security or to protect an employer’s resources from abuse. However, while an employer may justify a monitoring measure on the basis of economic imperative, it could also be viewed by its employees, the public or the courts as unjustified snooping.’
The 36 Group, 12th March 2020
Source: 36group.co.uk
‘R (on the application of Jalloh (formerly Jollah)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] UKSC 4.In a pithy parting shot to the Home Secretary, Lady Hale has given the unanimous judgment of the Supreme Court on the question of whether a person subject to a home curfew under immigration powers had been falsely imprisoned at common law and whether that concept should now be aligned with the concept of deprivation of liberty in article 5 of the ECHR. The Court decided the case against the defendant, as did every court below (the Blog covered the Court of Appeal’s decision here). The defendant had been required to pay the claimant £4,000.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th March 2020
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A woman who was left with life-changing injuries after being beaten by her ex-partner says she will go into hiding when he is released from prison after serving six months.’
The Guardian, 29th July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The outsourcing company Serco has been fined nearly £23m as part of a settlement with the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) over electronic tagging contracts.’
The Guardian, 3rd July 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Technology is increasingly being used by domestic abusers to trap, control or hunt down their victims, Refuge has told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.’
BBC News, 20th March 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Thousands of criminals in England and Wales will be tagged with GPS trackers to allow authorities to trace them 24 hours a day.’
BBC News, 16th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Knife crime offenders in London will be tagged with tracking devices upon their release from prison in an attempt to reduce violence in the capital, the mayor has announced.’
The Guardian, 11th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Rapists and killers are among hundreds of foreign criminals who have dropped off the Home Office’s radar. Immigration authorities also lost track of overseas nationals convicted of kidnap, weapons possession and robbery.’
The Independent, 9th November 2018
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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