The Tribune

By EARYEL BOWLEG

Tribune Staff Reporter

ebowleg@tribunemedia.net

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said of the 600 people being electronically monitored, more than 50 have switched their bracelets to the one provided by the new electronic monitoring service company.

Last month, the government confirmed that it cancelled the monitoring contract with Metro Security Solutions and selected Migrafill Electronic Security, the previous service provider.

Commissioner Fernander said the process, which began about two weeks ago in southern islands, is going “very smoothly” and that Metro Security Solutions will continue monitoring people until the transition is complete.

“Metro, they take the lead and their responsibility is to reach out to the wearers,” he said during a briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister. “The wearers are persons who are being monitored and they will reach them. There is a location identified based on the area that they live in and again, we want to thank the churches because we are using even some of the church halls in different areas.”

“Let’s say Kemp Road, everyone who lives in that area from Kemp Road who is being monitored, we give them a time to go there and then both teams will meet there and that’s the switch over.”

“The family of islands, we travel there. We use the resources. We have our police plane and we started from the south.”