Electronic monitoring program expands throughout Manitoba: justice minister

The Manitoba authorities says it’s expanding its electronic monitoring program to agrarian communities aft a palmy motorboat successful Winnipeg this summer.

The program, justness curate Matt Wiebe said, tracks offenders done a GPS-enabled ankle monitor, and notifies survivors of intimate spouse violence if their alleged abuser has breached conditions.

The GPS exertion is besides outfitted with audio, dependable and vibration commands, meaning instrumentality enforcement tin pass with offenders successful real-time if a breach successful their court-ordered conditions — which could see thing arsenic basal arsenic staying a definite region distant from a peculiar determination — takes place.

“Our authorities is moving guardant to grow the programme to agrarian communities arsenic portion of our nationalist information strategy arsenic we cognize transgression is impacting families crossed Manitoba,” the curate announced Friday.

“We’re besides moving to ensuring women, girls and gender-diverse radical passim the state are amended protected from their abusers by expanding the monitoring programme to see cases of intimate spouse violence.

“This instrumentality volition assistance enactment survivors, physique safer communities and assistance forestall aboriginal crime.”

The program’s wide enlargement crossed the state is acceptable to screen communities including Brandon, Steinbach, Selkirk, Portage la Prairie, Carman, Winkler, Morden, Souris, Dauphin and Virden, among galore others.

With a terms tag of $2.9 cardinal implicit 2 years, the state has the enactment to proceed aft that constituent if the programme has proven successful.

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The Manitoba Association of Women’s Shelters applauded the determination Friday, calling the inaugural an important stride guardant successful keeping women safe.

“The instauration of the physics monitoring programme marks a important measurement successful addressing the escalation successful the levels of unit we are seeing crossed Manitoba,” said Manitoba Association of Shelter Workers’ Sue Muvingi.

“These initiatives connection women greater bureau successful safeguarding their well-being, portion ensuring that perpetrators are held accountable.

“By combining exertion with proactive enforcement, we instrumentality a measurement toward gathering a nine wherever women tin unrecorded without fearfulness and wherever the justness strategy upholds their cardinal close to information and dignity.”