CARLOS Reid addressing the media previously.
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 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Why set yourself up for failure? Nothing is tamper proof. There is always a way. Might be a lot harder, but not tamper proof
hrysippus 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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....
bahamianson 8 months, 2 weeks ago
It is snowing in the Bahamas. Believe me, because I said so.
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
"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
TalRussell 8 months, 2 weeks ago
[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?
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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??
ted4bz 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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.
TalRussell 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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?
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Exactly
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm also puzzled why a policeman would need an unlicensed firearm ...
Sickened 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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.
rosiepi 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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!
ThisIsOurs 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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.
Sickened 8 months, 2 weeks ago
They probably didn't even ask him where he got the gun. This country is Sickening!
AnObserver 8 months, 2 weeks ago
The system ICS used years ago did all those things as well.
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