{"id":3564,"date":"2014-11-17T15:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scramsystems.com\/blog\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2018-05-09T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:16:51","slug":"british-prime-minister-promises-sobriety-bracelets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/british-prime-minister-promises-sobriety-bracelets\/","title":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Promises More Sobriety&#160;Bracelets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/nov\/17\/tories-sobriety-bracelet-alcohol-crimes#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a speech at last weekend\u2019s G20 summit in Australia<\/a>, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that if his party is returned to power\u00a0in the 2015 election, he will expand the use of \u201csobriety bracelets\u201d to help curb alcohol-related crime. Sources estimate that if the plan moves forward, up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2837234\/Make-drunken-yobs-wear-electronic-sobriety-tags-Thousands-fitted-devices-offered-alternative-prison.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5,000 individuals a year in the U.K.<\/a> could receive abstinence orders and be supervised with continuous transdermal alcohol&#160;monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. has long struggled with problems tied to excessive drinking. Unlike the U.S., where drunk driving is the most prominent alcohol-involved crime, in the U.K. police and citizens alike complain about \u201cboozed-up yobs\u201d who stumble out of pubs to fight, assault passers-by, damage property,\u00a0and commit other public disorder offenses. Officials\u00a0calculate that\u00a0alcohol-related crime costs the country between \u00a38 billion and \u00a313 billion (approximately $12.5 &#8211; $20 billion U.S.) each&#160;year.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron\u2019s announcement was triggered in part by the early success of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/priorities\/policing-crime\/our-work\/substance-misuse\/sobriety-pilot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City of London\u2019s Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement<\/a> (AAMR) pilot scheme, launched in August. The first of its kind in the U.K., the AAMR pilot allows courts to require sobriety and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/index\/scram\/continuous-alcohol-monitoring\">SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring<\/a> for individuals accused of alcohol-involved offenses. It is being overseen by the Mayor\u2019s Office of Police and Crime, the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office, and Public Health England. A few dozen individuals have enrolled in the pilot and a total of 150 participants are expected by the time it concludes next&#160;summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scramsystems.com\/scram-international\/gb\">Read news stories about the launch of alcohol monitoring technology in the U.K.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech at last weekend\u2019s G20 summit in Australia, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that if his party is returned to power\u00a0in the 2015 election, he will expand the use of \u201csobriety bracelets\u201d to help curb alcohol-related crime. 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