National Audit Office – Electronic monitoring: a progress update

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Electronic monitoring allows police, courts, probation and immigration services to monitor offenders’ locations and compliance with court orders.

Tagging works by sending an alert to a monitoring centre if an offender breaches certain conditions, for example, leaving home during curfew or entering an area defined as out of bounds.

Business users -such as police or probation officers – use the information to check compliance against conditions and understand offenders’ behaviour. HMPPS has not achieved its vision for transformation because of its failure to deliver a new case management system (‘Gemini’)