The electronic bracelet monitoring system has become operational in Bucharest and three counties. A man managed to remove the device and is under investigation
The monitoring system with electronic bracelets became operational in Bucharest and the counties of Iasi, Mures, and Vrancea on October 1. Here, people who are subject to police or court protection orders will be monitored with electronic…
Maiavankline · Journalist
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The monitoring system with electronic bracelets became operational in Bucharest and the counties of Iasi, Mures, and Vrancea on October 1. Here, people who are subject to police or court protection orders will be monitored with electronic bracelets.
This is the first stage of a pilot project meant to be implemented in three stages.
"By 2025 the entire electronic monitoring information system will be operational," internal affairs minister Lucian Bode said on Thursday, October 6, quoted by News.ro.
According to him, there are 964 monitoring kits and nine have been installed so far.
"In the last 24 hours, two devices have been fitted. There was also an incident, the police officers who arrived at the scene found that the person had removed the bracelet. He was taken to police headquarters, where investigations are underway for the offense of destruction. From the latest data we understand that in this situation the individual will be detained for 24 hours and will be presented to the court with legal proposals. (...) Logically, the person guilty of destruction should pay. We will see what the court orders," minister Bode said.
A man in Bucharest who was the first to be fitted with an electronic bracelet connected to the electronic monitoring information system for perpetrators of domestic violence tried to get rid of it and ran away from home, but was soon caught by the police.
"This morning (October 6), at around 3:30 am, police officers from the 19th Police Station were notified via the 112 system that an alert had been received at an address in District 5 regarding the destruction of a monitoring bracelet. Police officers established that the man, who had been fitted with the monitoring bracelet earlier this month, had used a sharp object to cut the tracking device, but failed to destroy it. The Public Prosecutor's Office was contacted and the man was subsequently detained for violation of the Provisional Protection Order and destruction of property," said the Bucharest Police, quoted by Agerpres.
He is now at risk of being remanded in custody for failing to comply with supervision measures. The investigations are being continued by the 19th Police Section, under the supervision of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the District 5 Court.
