Britain will test a satellite system for tracking sex offenders released from prison.

In the pilot programme, up to 120 offenders will be fitted with tags wirelessly connected to a mobile phone carried by the offender at all times.

The system could detect whether a sex offender approached a school or other area they were forbidden to be in, or could provide evidence of an offender’s location at the time of a crime and an alarm will be triggered if the phone, which is linked to the supervisors’ call centre, is separated from the tag.

The pilot programme will operate in Manchester, the West Midlands area of central England and the southern English county of Hampshire.

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