'Big rise' in tagging crimes - MP "Grant Shapps says one in 40 tagged offenders committed a crime when the project started in 1999, but by 2006 that had jumped to one in nine...Electronic tagging, officially known as the Home Detention Curfew (HDC) scheme, was launched in 1999. Since then, more than 137,000 prisoners have been released under the initiative, which has cost a total of £342 million. " Internal disintegration? Despite the fact that record numbers of young men are behind bars in the UK and others are being "tagged", neither the crime problem in the UK nor the costs to control and administrate it does not appear to be diminishing.