...and says he will cancel tender on prisoner surveillance system

Also on Thursday, the new justice minister revealed that he was cancelling a tender on an electronic surveillance system monitoring prisoners under house arrest. The minister indicated problems in the current tender (above all that it would allow a data bank on prisoners’ information to be owned and held by a private company) were unacceptable; he said only the state should have access to such details. A new tender on the surveillance system could now be called by the end of September.