What's an Alcohol Tag? | Alcohol Monitoring Tags

Описание: Alcohol tags, or 'sobriety tags', were launched in Wales in 2020, with tagged offenders sticking to their alcohol bans 97% of the time. That's why we're now rolling out alcohol tags for prison leavers in England to cut reoffending. We'll be increasing the number of tagged offenders to 12,000 by 2025.

So how do alcohol monitoring tags work? They're often dubbed 'sobriety tags' because these devices monitor alcohol levels in sweat and feed the information back to the offender's probation officer. A prison leaver will be ordered to wear an alcohol tag - like the one you can see in the video - if their probation officer thinks they could reoffend while drinking. If they do drink, the tag will alert the probation officer that they have violated the terms of their probation.

Wearing the tag helps probation officers monitor and change prisoner leavers' behaviour and support them when they turn their backs on crime, while helping the offender stay accountable and sober.

Hear from the company that makes the tags and a probation officer who has seen the benefit of them in action. They separate the truths from the myths and reveal if the alcohol tags can be cheated.

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