THE system controlling the hundreds of electronic monitoring bracelets attached to accused offenders who are on bail throughout the country will soon be upgraded, officials confirmed yesterday.
This update came from executives of ICS Security Systems, the company that facilitates the upkeep of the monitoring system, after Sean Lightbourne dropped off his bracelet at the Central Police Station.
Officers on duty at the time confirmed that at around 12.05pm on Wednesday, Lightbourne entered the station with the bracelet wrapped in a newspaper. He placed the newspaper on the desk and fled the scene. Police have since confirmed that he is now back in custody and will have to face charges in court over the matter.
Since the system's implementation in the Bahamas in November 2010, executives of ICS confirmed that thousands of tamper alerts have registered in their databases. They were not clear on which of the numbers were actual tamper incidents or false alarms.
There are 263 offenders with bracelets throughout the country to date.
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positiveinput 11 years, 9 months ago
Well its safe to say the one dropped off to the police station sure wasn't a false alarm lol. Now how is it that if ICS is paid to monitor the 'accussed offenders', at no time did they alert the police that a bracelet was tampered with whether or not it being a false alarm was questionable. Lets see, this bracelet was removed from the human body and was transported to a police station yet the monitoring company never alerted the police stating monitored individual 'John Doe' seems to have remove his bracelet and is now unmonitered. Thats equalent to breaking out of jail, dont you think. I dont know about you'll but, why again is my tax dollars funding this jokers wild security firm.
If a security firm is paid to monitor your house and every week someway, somehow a stray animal manages to set off the alarm system; for each occurance, the firm should investigate alerting the police to stand-by. But it shows that although this firm is being paid, after noticing week after week say a mouse in your house is triggering off your alarm motion system, they are just taking your money and not checking. Despite the amount of times false alarms may have occurred, for each time that security firm should have notified the police to stand-by whilst they investigate the nature of the bracelet being triggered.
I cant remember how much it was reported takes to fund the monitoring of an individual to that of having them in Fox Hill Prison but is sure hope for the length of time this particular individual was monitored, the government gets a credit or refund. Now lets look at the bigger picture, how come the police haven't let the public know who this unmonitored suspect is and to be on the look out for him/her cause this person have now broken out of jail custody in some sense.
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