In the U.K., upwards of 50% of violent crime is linked to alcohol, and one-third of police time is reportedly spent dealing with “drink-related” crime. In the last 2 years, U.K. officials have looked to the U.S. for some of the programs and technologies that have been making a difference in the management and mitigation of crimes linked to alcohol.
This year, the Office of the Northamptonshire Police and Crime Commissioner is implementing a sobriety pilot around the use of Continuous Alcohol Monitoring (CAM) technology, known as Sobriety Tags in the U.K. This pilot is the first of its kind to use intensive monitoring as a “condition of caution,” and it enables police officers to sanction volunteers who are arrested for alcohol-related or nighttime economy crimes with continuous monitoring.
In anticipation of the start of the pilot, the BBC dispatched a team of reporters to investigate the new program and the technology. Below is a link to what they found.
