The 5 Obstacles to Alcohol Monitoring

Tracking People December 2016

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Table of

Contents Today’s Ten Minute Topics

Understanding the Alcohol

Problem

Alcohol Monitoring Programs

Challenges Questions

Innovation Technology Alcohol

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Alcohol Misuse Problems

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How big of a problem?

United Kingdom

The estimated cost of alcohol harm to society is £21 billion per

year. Information on estimated cost to the NHS of alcohol misuse

shows that it costs £3.5 billion every year, which is equal to £120

for every taxpayer.

There were an estimated 1,059,210m admissions related to

alcohol consumption where an alcohol-related disease, injury or

condition was the primary reason for hospital admission or a

secondary diagnosis.

London has disproportionate levels of alcohol related violent

crime compared to the rest of the country. -June 2016 –October

2016 there were 34,283 arrests and 5,121 were flagging for

alcohol as a contributing factor – MOPAC 2016

These estimates are presented in the evidence paper to the House of Commons Health Select Committee on the Government’s Alcohol Strategy

Solutions

Primary criminogenic predictors of outcomes:

Justifying the Need for Testing

Offender

Outcomes

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Solutions In the UK

“Alcohol-fueled crime puts a huge strain on frontline services, costing

taxpayers billions of pounds each year. It’s time to roll these tags to the rest of

the capital and rid our streets of these crimes, by helping more offenders stay

off the booze and get back on the right track.” – April 2016

• The Former Mayor lobbied central

Government to change the law to

allow the UK courts to order

sobriety in certain circumstances

• Successfully amended the Legal

Aid, Sentencing and Punishment

of Offenders Bill with cross-party

support.

• New provision introduced in S.76

& s.77 Legal Aid, Sentencing and

Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

Alcohol Abstinence & Monitoring

Requirement (AAMR)

AAMR Sobriety Pilot – Phase I

Key aims and objectives:

To test uptake, applicability, process

pathways and if the technology works as

intended

Pilot Scope:

• 100 participants over 12 months

• 4 boroughs / East Croyden and

Camberwell Green Magistrate Courts

Criteria:

• Alcohol must be a contributing factor

in the arrest

• Not be alcohol dependant

• Length of order up to 120 days

• Must live in switched on pilot area

Evaluation Facts

113 orders in first 12 months /

167 over 18 months

92% AAMR Compliance Rate

vs 62% Compliance Rate for

other similar orders

75 Days avg. length of order

Uptake was consistent with

suitability and eligibility

criteria

The stakeholder collaboration

and positive feedback was

deemed the most important

underpinning success of the

pilot

AAMR Sobriety Pilot – Phase II

Key aims and objectives:

Testing effectiveness of reducing

reoffending (small scale), Stakeholders

Opinions, Cost Benefit Analysis, Scaling

Up Across London Lessons Learned.

Pilot boundaries:

• Phased approach to switch on the other

28 London boroughs / 4 phases

• 3 switched on and final area authorized

in Jan 2017

Criteria:

• Expanded to include DV cohort

• Exploring Tagging at Source

Timescale:

• April 2016 – April 2017

Pilot to Date

185 orders to date

97% Compliance Rate / 5

convicted of failing to

comply - expected to fall

over time

11,000+ days of monitoring

/ 528,000+ transdermal

alcohol tests

Trained over 800

magistrate judges with 400

more scheduled for Dec

and Jan

Reoffending Evaluation to

be released in Feb 2017

Voluntary Innovations

Key aims and objectives:

Allow other applications of the technology to be considered

outside of compulsory sobriety.

Program Applications

Family Law (Alere Toxicology and Lextox Drug & Alcohol

Testing) – Approved by LAA for funding in 2015. FDAC Courts

• Pre-Proceedings and Post Procedings

Local Authorities – Harm Reduction Model with alcohol

dependant service users of the NHS (Blackburn with Darwen)

Chester Social Care – Family Law Cases

Police Forces

• Cheshire, Northamptonshire, Kent, Bedfordshire IOM and

Conditions of Cautions schemes

Netherlands Alcoholmeter – 2017

Key aims and objectives:

Testing if we can use the Alcoholmeter in

criminal law in the Netherlands, when

mandatory and when alcohol is prohibited.

Pilot boundaries:

• 100 participants

• Two locations (Rotterdamn, Oost)

Criteria:

• Similar to the London pilot

• Prosecutor driven with Probation

support

Scottish Government – 2017

Key aims and objectives:

The Scottish Government EM workgroup

concluded their consultation with

recommendations for GPS and Sobriety

Demonstration Project:

• Legislative Mandate is Pending

• Funding is Pending

• Locations and Delivery Model Pending

• Alcohol Problem is not going away

Criteria:

• Compulsory with Rehabilitation Focus

The Challenges – Observations

Privatization of Probation / CRC’s

EM Procurement Lot 3

Introduction of devolved Police

Crime Commissioners

Ministerial Churn

BREXIT

NO Economies of Scale

Subsidizing unfunded IT security

mandates

Liability of Foreignness with 1 FTE

resource and great partners

Questions