Alex is involved in the rollout of the innovative Acquisitive Crime GPS tagging project. The project imposes location monitoring, using a GPS tag, on serious acquisitive offenders leaving prison.
Offenders’ movements are mapped against acquisitive crimes being investigated by the police, enabling the police to rule them in or out of an investigation and providing a powerful deterrent against reoffending.
This expansion of the scheme to a further 13 police forces will take the project’s coverage to half the country, enabling a robust control study of the effect of GPS tagging on reoffending to take place.
Alex said: “This scheme will not only act as a deterrent because the burglars will know they can be tracked but also will help police solve offences which they suspect have been committed by known criminals.
"Combining prevention, deterrent and enforcement, it will give the fantastic men and women in our police and criminal justice system the tools they need to keep people out of trouble in the first place.
“I hope the tags will act as a deterrent, incentivising offenders to turn their lives around and move away from crime.”