By 3 News online staff
A review into how a child sex offender managed to go on the run after cutting off his monitoring ankle bracelet has been launched by Corrections.
Daniel Livingstone was captured in Naenae, near Wellington, on Friday after being free for around 24 hours.
He made a brief attempt to flee, but was caught within an established cordon.
Authorities were alerted by the tamper alarm on the bracelet around 3:50am on Thursday when he left his Upper Hutt home.
National Commissioner Jeremy Lightfoot says the department's chief probation officer will lead the review which will see whether Community Corrections did everything it could to make sure Livingstone was managed adequately.
"Corrections takes the management of offenders in the community seriously and the safety of the public is our primary concern.
"The public have the right to expect that high risk offenders in the community are monitored to meet the conditions set around their release and are held to account if they breach these."
Livingstone is set to appear in the Hutt Valley District Court tomorrow.
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