Electronic tagging alerts are too slow to protect domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking victims from perpetrators who breach their exclusion zones, watchdogs and front line probation staff have warned.
Ahead of the early release of thousands of offenders from October, watchdogs have said that alerts could come “too late” for a victim living in fear of their domestic abuser seeking to contact, threaten or even attack them.
They say the current system relies on Serco, the tagging contractor, forwarding alerts to probation officers by email, which delays action until the following day if the alerts are sent outside office hours.
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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised as unlikely in real life the police have the sort of high tech central monitoring team that tv dramas love to show.
But am surprised - though shouldn't be - that the Government would dare to suggest this system is fit for purpose. But I suppose another indication of how low on the priority list women survivors of male violence are.
