A consortium led by G4S has won a four-year contract valued at 30m euros to provide its electronic monitoring equipment and software for the Ministry of Justice in France. The contract will see the roll out of G4S monitoring including Global Positioning System (GPS) devices to enable tracking of subjects within France, its dependencies and territories.
The electronic monitoring in France is one of the largest in the world with more than 11,000 active monitors at any one time. Designed, developed and delivered from the company’s electronic monitoring business in the UK, it has been used in 18 countries.
G4S Monitoring Technologies Managing Director, David Byrne, said: “This agreement will see electronic monitoring continuing to play a vital role in France’s justice system and the adoption of our latest technology sets the benchmark in Europe.”
