WA prison boss revoked the support for GPS tracking in regional areas

The Commissioner for Correction Services, Brad Royce, wrote to Col Blanch, police commissioner of the WA, warned that his agency could no longer support the GPS persecution of family and domestic violent actors in the regional WA due to “unacceptable risks” with the reaction times when the trackers are in debt.

In the letter received by the opposition on April 11, Royce said that problems with GPS persecution in U -Bahn areas could be solved immediately, but regional areas were a risk for victims of the offenders.

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“In regional and remote locations, delayed reactions lead to an unacceptable risk, especially in cases of family and domestic violence, in which immediate measures may be necessary to prevent damage to victims,” ​​he said.

“This is particularly problematic at night or on weekends when [Adult Community Corrections] You do not have the ability to react beyond the metropolitan region.

“In addition to the reaction to injury warnings, the ability to tackle device failures, charging problems or signal losses are of essential importance for effective monitoring.

“Accordingly, I now give formal advice that ACC will not recommend or support the use of electronic surveillance as part of the law to reform the family force in a location other than the Perth area.”

The law, which came into force in December last year, stipulates the GPS tracking of repeating of the family of violence of the family, which granted the deposit, but the state government has persecuted its effectiveness in regional areas for several weeks.

Royce said that the advice he gave Blanch was also made available to the Chief Magistrat, the district judge Wager, the inspection committee of the prisoner and the office of commissioner for victims of crime.

Royce's letter harms the efforts of the state government to downplay the topic.

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