Some of mine could do with this..

[Gob]

Some of Britain’s most dangerous psychiatric patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, are being fitted with satellite tracking devices to stop them escaping and reoffending.

A leading NHS trust has become the first to fit patients with an ankle bracelet containing global positioning system (GPS) technology, so they can be tracked if they abscond. The device, worn on a lockable, steel-reinforced, ankle strap, allows authorities to track a patient’s movements to within a few metres anywhere in the world.

More than 60 medium and high-risk patients detained at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have been fitted with the device as a condition of day leave, or while they are transferred to and from hospitals.

The trust said that such measures were necessary to protect the public, after a series of high-profile incidents where patients absconded, fled abroad or committed violent crimes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 144351.ece

I have had at least two clients on my books who "go bush" when unwell.

They are a great danger to themselves, and it necessitates a huge expenditure in police and rescue services time and energy.

Is it too big an infringement of their rights?

What if they volunteered to have one?

[loCAtek]

'tether' AKA ankle monitor;




...where you been?

[@meric@nwom@n]

Over here oldsters in nursing homes "have the right to fall" per the State Board of Heath. Basically you cannot use a seatbelt that they are not able to unfasten by themselves to hold them in a wheelchair. OTOH they do not have the right to wander out a door into a pond of heavy traffic. We often force those ankle bracelets on them. The bracelets set of alarms and cause doors to lock down. I don't understand the logic.

But I digress. With respect to your nutcases I suppose if the volunteer to wear one it would be ok. Otherwise being crazy should not lessen their right to get lost in the outback if they desire.