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<p>Electronic monitoring (EM) is an effective criminal justice tool helping the police
and probation keep the public safe by monitoring the movements of offenders and those
on bail, restricting their liberty while ensuring they can remain in work or education.</p><p>EM
has always been delivered using a contracted infrastructure and there are no current
plans to move away from that model. Probation play a vital role in maximising the
effectiveness of EM and obtaining the best outcomes for those who are tagged, which
is why senior level sponsorship of EM within probation regions has been built into
the new probation unified model.</p><p>As the sentencing white paper published recently
demonstrates, this Government is committed to expanding the use of EM. For example,
we intend to legislate to impose satellite enabled tagging on offenders released from
custody who have committed burglary and theft offences. And the roll out of alcohol
tags to monitor Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirements to help to break patterns
of alcohol-induced offending will shortly begin in Wales.</p>
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