Four sacked after tagging probe

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Four people have been sacked from a security firm after a BBC investigation revealed serious flaws in electronic tagging in the East Midlands.

An undercover inquiry by Inside Out East Midlands found Nottingham-based Group Four Securicor (G4S) had left several offenders unmonitored.

A G4S spokesperson said "decisive action had been taken on the issues raised by the BBC documentary".

A new senior manager has been appointed and staff have been retrained.

'High standards'

A statement from G4S said: "We have dismissed four members of staff, including the manager, and have completed an intensive training programme for all other staff members.

"We are confident that we are monitoring offenders effectively and that the East Midlands is now operating to our usual high standards."

A BBC undercover reporter spent four months working as a temporary employee at G4S where he secretly filmed workers and managers and kept a detailed diary.

He filmed staff allegedly fabricating records of tagging installations to save money and meet government targets.

G4S, responsible for monitoring more than 1,000 people across the East Midlands, said it had failed in "a small number of cases".