Re Joint Venture

RNS Number:6147W
QuikTrak Networks PLC
17 March 2004


                QuikTrak sign deal with Premier Geografix
                to develop criminal justice tagging device

London, 17 March 2004 - QuikTrak Networks plc (Ticker "QTR"), the secure
tracking and data messaging network operator, today announced that Premier
Geografix Limited ("PGL"), a leading provider of electronic monitoring
technology, will undertake a development programme for a custodial monitoring
application using the QuikTrak technology.  The partnership will develop a new
device that will enhance the way curfewees are monitored within the community.

Curfew orders are enforced using electronic monitoring technology and allow
prisoners serving between three monthsand four years to be eligible to spend
the last part of their custodial sentence on a home detention curfew (HDC),
subject to a risk assessment.

Curfewees are tagged with a monitoring device, generally attached around their
ankle, for between twoweeks and two months depending upon the length of their
sentence and monitored for a duration of at least nine hours a day.  Over 16,000
prisoners were placed on HDC during the first year of tagging operations in
1999.

It is expected the resulting technology from the QuikTrak/Premier venture will
be applied across a variety of applications, including tagging existing
curfewees, those on bail, as well as an alternative to custodial sentences,
particularly where young people are concerned.


Chris Kyriakou, CEO of QuikTrak Networks plc commented:

"This is another example of the diversity of the QuikTrak technology and the
potential for commercial applications.  Premier Geografix is a key player in the
custodial monitoring market witha successful track record in Home Office
electronic monitoring contracts.  This is a potentially large market as the Home
Office seeks to further develop its tagging applications."


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For further information:

Chris Kyriakou/Annie Richards
QuikTrak Networks plc
[phone]

James Chandler/ Grace Marriner
Beattie Financial
[phone]



Notes to editors


QuikTrak


     QuikTrak is a telecommunications business that specialises in secure,
      reliable and low-cost location, real-time tracking and mobile data
      communications. The Company provides solutions for locating and tracking
      vehicles, people and mobile assets through a terrestrial positioning 
network based on patented technology.

     QuikTrak is able to locate objects or people that may be hidden from view;
      unlike GPS-GSM systems it is almost impossible to jam and does not require 
      'line-of-sight'. This difference notonly makes QuikTrak more effective 
      and more secure than existing tracking technologies but the system 
      provides a lower cost alternative to other tracking solutions available 
      in the market.



Premier Geografix Limited (PGL)

     Previously known as Geografix Limited, the company was acquired by Premier
      Custodial Group in 1998 in order to support two UK Home Office Electronic
      Monitoring contract areas that Premier was awarded.  PGL has supplied 
      Electronic Monitoring equipment and expertise to three of the four UK Home 
      Office contract areas (approximately 72% of the UK market).

Other

     Power of Criminal Courts (Sentencing Act 2000) Sections 37 and 38 provide
      for curfew orders enforced by electronic monitoring.

     Under Section 99 and 100 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, prisoners
      serving between three months and four years to be eligible to spend the 
      last part of their custodial sentence on a home detention curfew (HDC), 
      subject to a risk assessment.


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