Law enforcement agencies worldwide have come to recognise the value of Home Detention as an effective, non-custodial, alternative to prison. Home detection programmes have been shown to preserve family structure, decrease re-offending rates and reduce operating costs.

Home detention can help offenders reintegrate into society. Offenders are deprived of their liberty for a major part of the day while some structure and order is introduced into their lives through their ability to take employment, attend education or rehabilitation schemes and take on family responsibilities

The success of home detention programmes is very dependent on the robustness and integrity of the electronic systems used, as perceived by both the operators and offenders. An offender must believe that any failure to comply with the conditions of the programme will be detected and result in penalty.

Guidance Monitoring has developed and manufactures an advanced system of offender monitoring electronics for use by law enforcement agencies. The OM247 system integrates state-of-the-art components and advanced data processing technologies to produce a robust and infinitely flexible system that is cost effective to implement and straightforward to use.