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Satellite Tracking Plan For Offenders
The Government is investigating ground-breaking technology to keep an eye on serial sex offenders. VICTORIA will consider using satellite global positioning systems (GPS) for the first time to track convicted serial sex offenders. Police Minister Tim Holding said the technology would allow offenders to be tracked, provide maps of their location and could warn victims when boundaries were breached. Electronic home detention was introduced as an alternative to prison in Victoria last year but continuous electronic surveillance of serial sex offenders would break new ground. Under the present system, home detainees wear a tamper- proof bracelet that transmits a signal to a monitoring system. Should the wearer stray from home, an alert is sent to the monitoring centre. Mr Holding said the technology was reliable but the Government intended to consider an alternative that would allow repeat offenders to be tracked everywhere. "The alternative GPS technology allows you to tell where the person is, providing they are still wearing the anklet or bracelet," he said. "It is currentty used in Florida, and Western Australia is looking at it." Mr Holding said the plans would not rely solely on technology. "Extended supervisory orders go a lot further than electronic supervision . The technology is only one element of it," he said. Victoria's most notorious pedophile, Brian Keith Jones, also known as Brendon John Megson, is expected to be released next month under some of the strictest parole conditions imposed. Jones, dubbed Mr Ba!dy for kidnapping young boys, shaving their heads and molesting them, is likely to be placed under curfew with random checks. He is expected to be required to report to authorities several times a week. He is likely to be banned from living near schools, kindergartens and child-care centres. In 1981, Jones was sentenced to 32 years' jail on 18 charges of child stealing and indecent assault, later reduced to 14 years. He was released after eight years. In 1992, he was convicted of the sexual penetration of a chiid under 10 and sentenced to 12 years and four months' Jail. The State Government will rush legislation through Parliament in the autumn session to allow electronic tagging of sex offenders, house arrest, reporting requirements and bans on mixing with children. The Government is modelling its proposals on New Zealand laws that permit corrections officers to apply for extended supervision orders for sex offenders considered a threat after release. AAP (2-2-2005) Fergus Sheil |
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