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<p>The tables below provide information on the number of individuals on a GPS tag
per month during the Ministry of Justice GPS pilot. The Pilot ran in two regional
police force clusters: the Midlands (Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire
and West Midlands) and BeNCH (Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire).
The learning from the Pilot has been incorporated into the new national location monitoring
service announced by the Secretary of State on 16 February. This will help strengthen
supervision, enforce exclusion zones and give victims greater peace of mind. More
detail about the Pilot, including the cohorts involved, can be found here <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluation-of-the-global-positioning-system-gps-electronic-monitoring-pilot"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/process-evaluation-of-the-global-positioning-system-gps-electronic-monitoring-pilot</a></p><p>
</p><p>The numbers of new starts in the Pilot dropped to zero a few months before
the end of the Pilot. This was because the Pilot was scheduled to last for 18 months,
ending on 31 March 2018. As most electronic monitoring orders last several months,
the MoJ imposed a cut-off date for fitting new tags three months before the Pilot
was due to end. This ensured that decision makers were not, for example, ordering
new tags to be fitted only a few weeks before they would have to be removed.</p><p>
</p><p>Table 1 shows the total number of individuals wearing a GPS tag at the end
of every month.</p><p> </p><p>Table 2 shows the number of new GPS starts each month.</p>
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