Crime suspects on bail are to be tracked by a new system dubbed “Chav-Nav”.
Using technology similar to car navigation, ankle bracelets send the wearer’s location via satellite to a website. Police can even track where they have been in the previous month.
Currently, tags only raise an alarm if a wearer leaves their home during curfew hours.
The system is already used by families to keep track of a child or vulnerable family member, such as those suffering from dementia.
The device weighs no more than an iPhone and has a battery that lasts for two weeks.
Herts police want to try them on 100 suspects.
Detective Superintendent John Chapman said: “These devices save us a lot of time and energy by being able to say that someone wasn’t at the scene of a crime. It can tell us that none were anywhere near burglaries or tell us they have been.”
-WIth express.co.uk input
