Reid says new monitor company’s ankle bracelet is ‘tamper-proof’

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS

Tribune Staff Reporter

lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

MINISTRY of National Security consultant Carlos Reid said people on bail would be outfitted with “tamper-free” devices when Migrafill Electronic Security takes over the service.

National Security Minister Wayne Munroe told The Tribune on Monday that the government has cancelled its electronic monitoring service contract with Metro Security Solutions and selected the previous service provider, Migrafill, to monitor people on bail.

Mr Reid, a vocal critic of Metro Security Solutions, said the shift is a step in the right direction.

“Not only that you can’t cut it, if you mess with it and tamper with it, the signal goes off,” he said yesterday.

“Not only that, this company right now, even if a person doesn’t have a cell phone, they could communicate to the person that’s wearing the monitor because there’s a call system on the monitor itself.

“It is tamper-proof so you can’t move it off, so you going to have to be where the monitor says that you are.”

Mr Reid said officials believe bail could be better controlled.

“Where we can control the movement of persons and then when we look at the amount of persons that is being killed while out on bail for murder, persons that are killing people while on bail for murder, we believe that this is a tool that the government could use,” he said.

As the murder rate soared in late December and January, attention centred on the frequency with which people accused of serious crimes get bail and the ease with which some broke their bail conditions.

Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander said some people easily removed their bracelets with just a paper clip.

Comments

Dawes says...

Why set yourself up for failure? Nothing is tamper proof. There is always a way. Might be a lot harder, but not tamper proof

Posted 14 March 2024, 10:03 a.m. Suggest removal

hrysippus says...

Carlos is a highly paid government consultant, he has a background in the business of running a church; as such he is to be believed as an expert on this subject. He is almost certainly not just parroting what he has been told by the salesman for this recently hired company. Sigh....

Posted 14 March 2024, 10:37 a.m. Suggest removal

bahamianson says...

It is snowing in the Bahamas. Believe me, because I said so.

Posted 14 March 2024, 12:56 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

"*Not only that you can’t cut it, if you mess with it and tamper with it, the signal goes off,” he said yesterday.*"

But I thought Metro also said when individuals attempt to tamper with devices they had a practice of notifying the police and the issue was police response time

Posted 14 March 2024, 1:33 p.m. Suggest removal

TalRussell says...

[Has anyone else noticed] how the printed, talked radio - Either [chosen to go silent or under report] on the incident of possession allegation of a prohibited firearm. .--- Guess we're not taken on a journey if it involves families [above a certain pay scale]. -- Yes?

Posted 14 March 2024, 2:58 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

Yes I noticed. Also noticed that yesterday's story mentioned an "*alledged*" firearm. Then in same story said police had confiscated the weapon. Huh? How do you "confiscate" an alledged weapon? Then comments were disabled.... for the case of a man found with an illegal gun and ammunition??

Posted 14 March 2024, 8:46 p.m. Suggest removal

ted4bz says...

He says it is tamperproof, but nothing is 100%, maybe it will work until someone somewhere, perhaps on the Internet shows how to shut it down. The government is excellent for juggling things around, but it's becoming more and more obvious, it's not for solving problems nor settling matters to the point where it is no longer an issue.

Posted 14 March 2024, 3:57 p.m. Suggest removal

TalRussell says...

A lot of tech kinds apps' businesses' sprungin'-up. ---- [But who's responsible for [monitoring] --- Like, since when could Money Transfer/Cheque Cashing/ATM Operators ---- Start tampering by offering theyselves; as they're ---  ['Banks']. --- Yes?

Posted 14 March 2024, 4:47 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

Exactly

Posted 15 March 2024, 1:02 a.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

I'm also puzzled why a policeman would need an unlicensed firearm ...

Posted 14 March 2024, 8:47 p.m. Suggest removal

Sickened says...

Because he plans on doing some illegal stuff with it. No other reason.
I hope that they did ballistic tests as it may reveal some interesting history.
But I'm sure that it was just ordered destroyed.

Posted 15 March 2024, 8:57 a.m. Suggest removal

rosiepi says...

Migrafill has been contracted before and like the other service providers they all had the same failures.

Those who wonder just what the heck is going on should understand that none of these companies can work properly while the RBPF remains corrupted by officers that work for moneyed interests in the smuggling of drugs, firearms, people, whatever.

I remember the articles here citing the high number of homicides of those out on bail and whose bodies were found still wearing their monitors.
The police said about 85% of those monitored wear/charge their monitors correctly and 40% of these were being murdered.

So it appears to me that if I was a corrupt officer, part of a gang of such employed as ‘hit men’
for criminal interests, (a report that gains credence with every police shooting labeled homicide) what’s the easiest way to discover the whereabouts of my target-if he’s out on bail?

And that is the simplest and logical answer why none of these companies have had the success of their counterparts in other countries.
And let us please recall that every time the PLP comes into power the murder rate increases!

Posted 14 March 2024, 9:03 p.m. Suggest removal

ThisIsOurs says...

This is the 2nd officer found with an unlicensed firearm. If I were the commissioner I'd be very troubled. I wouldnt be talking about low morale from officers having to defend themselves in unusual shooting incidents as such inquiries are a normal practice around the world. And theres a remedy to exonnerate officers, bodycams. Nobody needs to be scratching their heads what we guh do. But why would an officer need an unlicensed firearm? The commissioner should be very concerned.

Posted 15 March 2024, 1:15 a.m. Suggest removal

Sickened says...

They probably didn't even ask him where he got the gun. This country is Sickening!

Posted 15 March 2024, 8:59 a.m. Suggest removal

AnObserver says...

The system ICS used years ago did all those things as well.

Posted 15 March 2024, 9:30 a.m. Suggest removal

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