Offenders can be given a limit that they are allowed to drink, or they can be banned from consuming booze.
The tag measures the amount of alcohol in sweat every half-hour, with the results sent electronically to a monitoring system.
The Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring scheme will be piloted in South London next month and could be rolled out across England and Wales.
Judges must be satisfied that booze was a contributing factor to an offence but that the accused is not an alcoholic in need of specialised treatment.
The tags will be available to judges passing community or suspended sentences and can be sanctioned for up to four months.
But makers of the US tag SCRAM – Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring – warn that, while exercise is not a problem, spray tans and fragrances that contain alcohol can set off the sensor.
A relative of one of the rescued Chibok girls, Peter Joseph has said that the Federal Government has barred the girls from sharing their experience under Boko Haram captivity with their parents. Joseph said this on Al Jazeera’s programme, “The Stream”.
Julia Vins, 18, has an army of fans in her native Russia for her striking combination of beauty and brawn Teenager Julia Vins has the delicate facial features of a porcelain doll - and the ripped physique of The Hulk. Julia has an army of fans in her native Russia for her unconventional combination of good looks and rippling muscles. The 18-year-old - who likes to take topless pictures of herself - even holds three world power-lifting records.
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says it is agitating for the sovereign state of Biafra without any intention to destroy Nigeria – The group says President Buhari’s utterances on the Biafra was prejudicial as the matter was in court – Says the Biafran legal unit is putting pressure on the federal government in a case at the Federal High Court in Owerri which was instituted in 2012 The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has declared that it will the actualise a sovereign state of Biafra without recourse to war.
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