‘Mandatory testing with a polygraph, or lie-detector, should be introduced to monitor convicted sex offenders undergoing police supervision, according to university research commissioned by police chiefs.’
The Guardian, 18th March 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Convicted terrorists will face lie-detector tests under a raft of measures drawn up in the wake of the most recent London Bridge attack to toughen up the monitoring of offenders in the community.’
The Guardian, 21st January 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘People seeking asylum in the UK should take a lie detector test as part of their application, the former chief of UK immigration enforcement says.’
BBC News, 11th January 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A convicted sex offender had admitted reoffending after police asked him to take a lie detector test when concerns were raised about his behaviour.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th July 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Paedophiles and rapists are caught out breaking the terms of their release from prison after undergoing new polygraph tests, Ministry of Justice figures show.’
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Daily Telegraph, 22nd August 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Lie detector tests monitoring the behaviour of released sex offenders across England and Wales have begun this week, amid calls for the technology to be used more widely in police investigations.’
The Guardian, 8th August 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The UK’s first school for training highly-skilled probation officers to become lie detector examiners is underway.’
Ministry of Justice, 27th May 2014
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“Sex offenders will be offered lie detector tests to help police assess the risk they pose to the public when released.”
Daily Telegraph, 20th November 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“MPs are expected to clear the way for the introduction of compulsory lie detector tests to monitor convicted sex offenders across England and Wales from next January.”
The Guardian, 1st July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Polygraphs are notoriously unreliable and easy to fool, and sooner or later sex offenders will discover the truth about them.”
The Guardian, 10th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Polygraph expert whose skills helped Jeremy Kyle and Jerry Springer found guilty of perverting the course of justice.”
The Guardian, 2nd December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Sex offenders will be made to take lie detector tests as part of probation conditions when they are freed from prison, the Ministry of Justice says.”
BBC News, 5th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Sex offenders in some parts of England and Wales could be made to take compulsory lie detector tests to see if they are still a danger to the public.”
BBC News, 19th September 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The National Offender Management Service is proposing to operate a three-year pilot of mandatory polygraph tests to determine if the polygraph can help in the management of sex offenders.”
Ministry of Justice, 19th September 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
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