In the Guardian today:

More than 5,000 offenders went unmonitored in the first half of the year because probation staff failed to install electronic tags, while 1,600 tags had no signal for more than two weeks due to faults, a report has found.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/12/failure-fit-tags-offenders-unmonitored-england-wales

Imagine even one offender went tag-less in Scotland? Imagine the MSM operating in Scotland if they got wind of one, just the one?

Has there been one reported failure in Scotland in 2026?

No. There is no publicly reported systemic or notable operational failure of Scotland’s electronic monitoring system in 2026 comparable to the England and Wales situation (thousands of unfitted tags, large numbers of devices with no signal for weeks, fitting backlogs, or probation-driven monitoring collapse).