The Ministry of Equality is going to update the coverage map it uses to monitor anti-abuse bracelets, telematic control devices to know the exact location of sexist aggressors with restraining orders. With this initiative it aims to improve coverage, especially in rural areas. The temporary union of companies (UTE), responsible for the Cometa system that monitors these bracelets, will be in charge of updating the coverage map of the devices. In addition, you will have to update it periodically with all the national operators in the sector.
The (CGPJ) demanded these improvements this week because the failures in the geolocation of the bracelets are one of the “most recurrent incidents,” according to the president of the Observatory, Esther Rojo, in an interview with Europa Press. A spokesperson for Equality assures that the initiative came from the ministry.
The new map will also include reports that will be transferred to the Police to facilitate “full institutional collaboration” against sexist violence, according to the Equality note. The result of these reports will also be reported to the CGPJ Gender Violence Observatory so that, together with the Government Delegation against Gender Violence – on which the Cometa system depends -, it can be disseminated “to all judicial authorities.”
The Cometa system was created to monitor sexist aggressors who are subject to a restraining order. It is done through bracelets that geolocate both and notify the authorities in case the abused person approaches the victim. However, the usefulness of these devices has been called into question since flaws were discovered in September last year that meant that for a few months the movements of the aggressors could not be known before March 20, 2024.
The incidents occurred because the Ministry changed the company that manages them and the devices and some functions of the service were renewed, which caused vulnerabilities. One of them was precisely that rural areas were left more unprotected because, when changing providers, many of them were left without coverage, which means that the alerts took longer to reach the victims and the location of the aggressors was imprecise. The new mapping that the Ministry has announced tries to provisionally solve that part of the problem because, until May 2026, .
