First They Came ...

9:21am Saturday 8th December 2012

New police system will keep check on sex offenders [sic]

"SEX offenders in York and North Yorkshire are to have their computers monitored by a new police search system.

Julia Mulligan, the region’s new Police and Crime Commissioner, has approved the purchase of a system called Triage, which will be able to carry out remote checks of PCs owned by registered sex offenders and send a warning to officers if they type certain key words.

North Yorkshire Police said the system would be used by the force’s eight public protection officers, who manage more than 500,000 sex offenders in the region [lordy !!! ;)].

They currently visit them twice a year, but police chiefs said this did not always allow enough time to assess their lifestyle and whether they may be committing further crimes. A report by Assistant Chief Constable Iain Spittal said reoffenders may only be caught during a police operation and, by that time, they may have been offending for some time.

It also said computer technology was developing at a rate which made it “impossible” to keep training officers to carry out manual “invasive” computer checks, meaning there was a need for Triage.

The report said if the Triage search suggests the sex offender’s behaviour online is not as it should be, this will allow police to arrest them. The new system will cost £11,534 and will be bought in early next year."

http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/10097226._/

Sex offenders' online activities monitored

http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk/news/northyorkshire/10097576.Sex_offenders__online_activities_monitored/

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northallerton/10097576.Sex_offenders__online_activities_monitored/?ref=rss

New police system will keep check on sex offenders

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10097226.New_police_system_will_keep_check_on_sex_offenders/

AccNYP @Iainspittal

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Julia Mulligan @Julia_Mulligan 

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Sex offenders' online activities monitored

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news_all/10097576.print/

Public Decision Meeting: 28 November 2012

08/2012: Introduction of a computer triage system to monitor Registered Sex Offenders

"Legal Implications

"The RSOs that will be subject to computer triage will be on a court order (SOPO) that allows the police to manage the RSO in the community by checking their computer and ensuring that it is made available to be checked." [the primary question, being, why are these SOPOs justified and allowed? - where is the legal challenge, at application?]

http://www.northyorkshire-pcc.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10061

Triage Computers to Reduce Forensic Backlogs and Lower Costs

http://www.adfsolutions.com/products/triage-examiner

£500 per household for police to monitor internet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9733505/500-per-household-for-police-to-monitor-internet.html