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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

‘Smell detectors’ and AI cameras to be considered to monitor criminals

Ministers are seeking to overhaul the justice system (PA) - (PA Archive)

Cameras fitted in offenders’ homes and “smell detectors” to catch out drug use in and outside of prison could be introduced as new technology to monitor criminals and curb reoffending.

Tech companies pitched devices to prisons and probation minister James Timpson on Tuesday, as ministers seek to overhaul the justice system.

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