Increase in SA of people who attempted to remove their home detention monitoring bracelet on intensive bail supervision
The number of offenders on intensive home bail supervision who damaged or tried to remove their electronic monitoring bracelet is on the rise. It comes a week after police renewed an appeal for public help to find a wanted man.
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The number of offenders damaging or attempting to remove their electronic monitoring bracelet while on intensive home detention bail has risen this year in South Australia.
The news comes after police last week renewed their appeal to find a missing man who cut off his monitoring bracelet.
In the 2019-20 financial year, 195 people attempted to damage, or successfully removed their electronic monitoring bracelets while on intensive bail supervision, compared with 181 in the previous year – a rise of 8 per cent.
Police have renewed their appeal for help to find Susen Sharma, who is wanted for breaching his intensive bail supervision order. He has not been seen since February.
Sharma is described as 180cm tall with a solid build and black hair. He was last known to have a goatee beard.
An accused shooter Simon Bekiri cut off his monitoring bracelet in May.
Bekiri, 38, was arrested at Sydney Airport as he got of a flight from Thailand on March 25, and was extradited to SA over a shooting at Hindmarsh in September.
He was arrested two days after police put out a public appeal to find Bekiri, who was found in a Woodville North home.
Intensive bail supervision is ordered by the court. The bailee must stay at home unless they have permission to leave for approved purposes.
A departmental spokesperson said people subject to intensive bail supervision tend to have a lower compliance rate as they have not been found guilty of an offence at the time.
They said electronic monitoring is just one way the department supervises offenders in the community.
“The department has well-established contingency plans for monitoring offenders on electronic monitoring, which include physical and telephone contact with offenders.”
All other incidents of offenders who tampered with their electronic bracelets were fewer in 2019/20 compared to 2018/19, including people on court ordered home detention, release ordered home detention, and parole.