Tuesday, December 12, 2006

John Reid admitted yesterday, to the Home Affairs Select Committee, that the two suspected terrorists who broke their control orders by removing their electronic tags and going on the run in August are still at large. However, he added, that he was satisfied that the two on the run presented little direct risk to public safety. This begs the question why they were deemed terrorist suspects, and subjected to house arrest in the first place?
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:29 PM

    I think the question is, why are the tags so easily removable? I have written about this a couple of times because it happens frequently. Some of these prisoners go on to reoffend, even to murder. These tags are meant to be a deterrent to prison, why is the monitoring of them so poor? What a joke.

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  2. jailhouselawyer6:18 PM

    In this case, the control orders had expired and they were at liberty to remove them which they did. They should not have been subjected to this restraint in the first place.

    Generally, electronic tags are monitored by private security firms and they are supposed to set off an alarm when they are tampered with.

    I was not impressed with the importation of yet another failed idea from the US.

    The truth is individuals have to monitor their own behaviour. Self control is the only effective policing.

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