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| Thread ID: 125424 | 2012-06-27 06:59:00 | GPS ankle bracelets for sex offenders..........don't make me laugh! | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1284277 | 2012-06-27 09:11:00 | Then you're screwed. :p Pun intended.... |
Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1284278 | 2012-06-27 09:47:00 | Pun intended.... I didn't see that :lol: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1284279 | 2012-06-27 10:00:00 | My hand held Garmin eTrexH works in my house, the H version was developed to work in dense bush cover and works indoors too quite well unless I'm right in the middle of the house. If i'm within 2m of the walls or windows it works | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1284280 | 2012-06-27 10:40:00 | Unless of course it's also using cell towers and wifi for location information - which is likely, given it's meant to be feeding the data back somehow - and suddenly you at least have approximation data, even if it is +/- 100m instead of +/- 5m . It couldn't use the normal cellular system, or wi-fi, the batteries would need regular charging and guess who would forget, or lose the charger: sorry Officer, my dog ate it / the kids stole it / what charger? / I didn't know what it was so I sold it on Trade Me / it fell in the toilet/down the long drop . . . . . . . . . . . the excuses would be endless . It most likely would rely on satellite for GPS location, and micro-bursts of data initiated by the interrogating device for reporting, but it would still be easy to block that system . If I had an evil mind, I'd test the system out by going off-line for periods of time then acting inoccent when the Feds turned up . I'd always be where I was supposed to be, and in the end they'd ignore the signal loss or turn up only once in every so many incidents . In the meantime, parents and kids beware of shifty looking characters of indeterminate racial origins and ambiguous sexual characteristics with one bulky ankle that reflects sunlight into your eyes . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1284281 | 2012-06-27 10:48:00 | If these are anything like the normal ankle bracelets used, then inside the house there will be a transmitter hooked up to the phone line. If bracelet is tampered with or gets out of range from transmitter it phones home to armour guard or whoever is monitoring it. No, not from first hand experience, but close :) | plod (107) | ||
| 1284282 | 2012-06-27 10:57:00 | If these are anything like the normal ankle bracelets used, then inside the house there will be a transmitter hooked up to the phone line. If bracelet is tampered with or gets out of range from transmitter it phones home to armour guard or whoever is monitoring it. No, not from first hand experience, but close :) Even easier for a smart crook to confound: take it off-line for a while then be in the front yard gardening when the cavalry arrive. Next time be in bed, then the shower, then watching TV etc. Bear in mind that the mooted system/device is meant to track the wearer's movements when away from their residence. They are not under home detention, they are under movement / location surveillance. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1284283 | 2012-06-27 11:10:00 | Even easier for a smart crook to confound: take it off-line for a while then be in the front yard gardening when the cavalry arrive . Next time be in bed, then the shower, then watching TV etc . Bear in mind that the mooted system/device is meant to track the wearer's movements when away from their residence . They are not under home detention, they are under movement / location surveillance . Cheers Billy 8-{)Doesn't work like that billy, you take it off line playing silly buggers, your bail or sentence will be revoked into the big house . So sounds like the new proposed is different to current system . Maybe the bracelet should be fitted with a taser, so when you go somewhere where ya not meant to be cazinga |
plod (107) | ||
| 1284284 | 2012-06-27 22:12:00 | a GPS unit is a reciever, i'm guessing it will use GSM/GPRS or other data networks to send/recieve data. That network will most likely be auxiliary to the GPS info which used in collaboration with other systems on the bracelet will be able to detect any anomalies in tracking data and tampering. ;) Perhaps they will be allowed to make calls, send texts, browse the web and use navigation on the road? knowing NZ's "special" treatment of our criminals that sounds feasible. I doubt corrections will release any info on these things in the name of security but I doubt it will rely solely on GPS. |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1284285 | 2012-06-27 23:43:00 | beware of shifty looking characters of indeterminate racial origins What, people of obvious racial origins don't commit crimes? Husbands GPS works indoors. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1284286 | 2012-06-28 00:05:00 | However well it works it's better than nothing, At least if there was a signal it could be used to establish where someone was and if there was no signal when an offence occured that would be an extra layer of suspicion. If something happened in an area police could theoretically look up where all the known gps equipped offenders were at the time and whether any were out of coverage and narrow down the suspects. Also it could pick up dodgy behavour before it became an issue, does that offender walk past a school every day to go to the dairy and slow down as they do? Used correctly I think it could be useful, but obviously not 100% reliable. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
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