Offender Management Product Testing

BACKGROUND Home Office CAST (Centre for Applied Science and Technology) has been tasked with assessing a product, known in the industry as an electronic tag. These tags are used by government for the purpose of offender management. Upon authorisation from a UK court of law a tag is assigned and fitted to an offender. Fitment is typically around the ankle and legitimate removal thereof is only possible through the authorised use of special equipment. Once fitted the tag is activated to perform one or both of two fun...