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Tens of thousands more to be tagged under biggest ever expansion

ended 02. September 2025

The government has this afternoon announced the biggest-ever expansion of electronic monitoring, with tens of thousands more offenders to be tagged as part of tougher post-prison release supervision and public-protection measures. Have a read of the official announcement and, if you have any views on this, send them across ASAP as this story is BREAKING.

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Pete Mugleston
Mortgage Advisor & Managing Director at onlinemortgageadvisor.co.uk
The big benefit of expanding tagging is that it can reduce reoffending, which will ease pressure on our overcrowded prisons. Monitoring offenders more closely after release gives probation a better chance to intervene early if risks escalate, while keeping lower-risk offenders out of cells frees up space for the most dangerous criminals.
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Keith Budden
Managing Director at Ensurety
The introduction of tagging by default for prisoners who are leaving prison is I think a good thing (and I'm sure a good number of people will have assumed that this is already happening). Technology advances such as this have to be of positive benefit to society (with the proviso that tagging works and there are not known workarounds to have tagging give a false positive, i.e. the monitoring system says the tag says the offender is at home, while they are in fact out potentially committing more crimes while the tag has been manipulated so it is no longer reporting back its true position.

I am less sure on some of the other proposed reforms, in principle banning someone from pubs or football grounds sound great, but in reality without significant investment, how will that work in practice. Taking a simple example if someone travels 20 miles to another town, will the bar staff there know that person is banned from public houses?