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Satellites will track 5,000 of the worst criminals in Britain
Maybe this technology should be used on POW's released from Abu Prison, Camp Bucca Satellite technology will be used to track 5,000 career criminals who are responsible for one in every 10 crimes in Britain, the Home Secretary David Blunkett will announce tomorrow. The radical new technology, which has been developed in the US, will enable law enforcement officers to pinpoint the exact location of criminals who have been released early from prison and fitted with electronic tags. It will feature among a series of measures in a five-year plan to tackle burgeoning violent crime and antisocial behaviour. Home Office figures released next week will show police forces recording rises as high as 25 per cent. A Home Office source said: "We are the largest users of tagging outside the US and we will continue to do this. We will introduce satellite tracing for prolific offenders as well as for domestic violence and sex offenders."... Of course, one wonders why the UK[or the US for that matter] releases these repeat low life criminals in the first place... Posted by: rex 2004-07-18 |
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