JFJ ‘cautiously’ welcomes DCS move towards electronic tracking of sex offenders

Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has welcomed the move by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) towards the use of electronic tags to track registered sex offenders, but cautions that it has to be applied on a risk basis.

Commissioner of Corrections Brigadier (Retd) Radgh Mason announced that the department was working to acquire the equipment and put the necessary legal arrangements in place to introduce the system as the DCS seeks to strengthen its monitoring of more than 500 people on its watch list.

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