Tighter controls coming for sex offenders

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is moving towards the use of electronic tags to track registered sex offenders as it seeks to strengthen its monitoring of more than 500 people on its watch list.

Commissioner of Corrections Brigadier (Ret’d) Radgh Mason said the department was working to acquire the equipment and put the necessary legal arrangements in place to introduce the system.

He disclosed that the DCS was monitoring 528 sex offenders, with just over 30 having breached their legal requirement to report to probation officers after leaving prison.