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Speaker 1: The number of criminals escaping their ankle bracelets is shooting up.

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Speaker 1: So it was back in twenty fifteen just sixty four

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Speaker 1: people who did this. Last year eight hundred and thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Tony Stewart is Correction's chief probation officer and with us Hey, Tony,

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Speaker 1: sure to Heather. Now, part of the reason it's going

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Speaker 1: up is because there are more and more people who

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Speaker 1: have ankle bracelets on am I right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yes, it would seem that way. There

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Speaker 2: has been over the last ten years an increase in

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Speaker 2: the number of people that have been granted electronically monitored

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Speaker 2: veil by the courts.

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Speaker 1: What are they doing to get out? Are they cutting it?

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Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, a raft of things. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 2: it goes without saying that. You know, people have landed

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Speaker 2: themselves in this position because they've either been charged with

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Speaker 2: or convicted of breaking the law, and as the data

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Speaker 2: would indicate, there are a group of people who are

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Speaker 2: determined to circumvent the system and don't want to be

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Speaker 2: compliant with those conditions.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so what happens if they cut it all foil?

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Speaker 1: It will do something thing like that? What's the punishment?

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Speaker 2: So we've got a So the electronically monitored bail works

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Speaker 2: through a joint service model between Corrections and police. So

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Speaker 2: at Corrections we have a twenty four to seven team

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Speaker 2: of dedicated trained staff who work just around electronic monitoring,

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Speaker 2: and at the time an alert comes through that someone

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Speaker 2: is tempering or attempting to abscond, that generates an alert

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Speaker 2: to our team and we are immediately sharing that information

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Speaker 2: to police.

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Speaker 1: But they follow up. This says to me that what

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Speaker 1: we should if you've got this many people who are

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Speaker 1: mucking around with their ankle bracelet's what it says to

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Speaker 1: me is we should not be putting anyone who is

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Speaker 1: a risk to the public on an ankle bracelet, should

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Speaker 1: we Well.

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Speaker 2: Ultimately, the decision as to who is granted electronically monitored

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Speaker 2: bail or not sits with the courts. We're really focused

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Speaker 2: on making sure that we do our job, which is

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Speaker 2: to really carefully and closely monitor their compliance in terms

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Speaker 2: of the electronic monitoring. And as I say, I MEETI

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Speaker 2: notifying police when we think that there's evidence that the

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Speaker 2: tempering or attempting to abscond, totally appreciate the concerns of

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Speaker 2: the public and absolutely here to assure you that we

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Speaker 2: have a zero tolerance for non compliance with any of

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Speaker 2: our sentences or orders, and in this instance the elect

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Speaker 2: monitoring component of fail. And so again, when we've got

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Speaker 2: that information to suggest that people are doing that, that's

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Speaker 2: immediately passed on to police for follow up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tony, thanks very much for your time. Tony Stewart,

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Speaker 1: Correction's Chief probation Officer.

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