Tracking Predators
New Monitoring Devices Help Officers
by Chris Redford
Officers with the Probation & Parole Division used to have to wait 24-hours to see if a convicted sex offender was up to no good. Now they can track the offender every minute of the day.
Supervisor Bill Toggle says new GPS monitoring bracelets, which work off celll phone technology, gives officers updates every sixty seconds.
Officers can keep tabs on the offenders via the internet.
The bracelets are worn by those determined to be sexually violent predators and child predators. There are currently about a dozen in the Shreveport-Bossier area.
If an offender does something or goes somewhere not allowed, officers will be notified immediately.
Earlier this week, an offender in Shreveport was arrested just minutes after officers say he removed his bracelet.
Toggle says when it comes to monitoring predators and public safety, every minute counts.
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