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.
The remains of the female politicians, who died in a ghastly auto accident have been laid to rest at the Bayelsa State cemetery, Azikoro in Yenagoa, the state capital. President Goodluck Jonathan his wife, Dame Patience and the Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson as well as wives of the Anambra and Ekiti State Governors joined other sympathizers at a special memorial service in honour of the deceased women at the Dr. Gabriel Okara Cultural Centre, in Yenagoa.
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”.
An American volunteer cardiologist was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, a member of his minority Ahmadi community said, in the latest attack on a group that says it is Muslim but whose religion is rejected by the state. Mehdi Ali Qamar had taken his wife, young son and a cousin to a graveyard in Punjab province at dawn to pray when he was shot, said Salim ud Din, a spokesperson for the Ahmadi community. "He came here just one or two days ago to work at our heart hospital, to serve humanity and for his country," Din said. "Two persons came on motorbikes. They shot 11 bullets in him." Qamar was born in Pakistan but moved abroad in 1996. He had returned to do voluntary work at a state-of-the-art heart hospital built by the Ahmadi community in the eastern town of Rabwah. Qamar, aged 50, moved to Columbus, Ohio, in the United States, where he founded an Ahmadi centre and raised funds for medical charities in Pakistan, Din said. He is survived by a wife and three young...
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