The Northern Territory Government is considering putting ankle bracelets on problem drinkers in Darwin in an effort to get chronic drunks out of the city.

Chief Minister Adam Giles has told 105.7 ABC Darwin that the trackers are among a range of measures being considered.

He said the Government was looking at "whether or not we could be putting the ankle bracelets on people who are known to be chronic alcoholics and have been committing crime on our streets".

The Government is also investigating face recognition technology, mandatory treatment for alcoholics, Aboriginal night patrol services and recruiting auxiliary police personnel.

Mr Giles said the Government was not considering a Banned Drinker Register, as the Opposition has proposed, and did not have the resources to assign police to bottle shops in Darwin.

Mr Giles said a decision had not yet been made on the ankle bracelets.

"I'm not saying that they are the answer or they will be the answer," Mr Giles said.

He did not say how long the Government would be investigating the ankle bracelets before making a decision.

The problem of drunks in the city "needs to be cleaned up," Mr Giles said.

President of the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory, Russell Goldflam, said the proposal reflected a disturbing social trend.

"We're heading towards a society that looks to surveillance as a starting point rather than as a last resort," he said.

Mr Goldflam said he had always welcomed the use of ankle bracelets for accused criminals out on bail, as a means of allowing people to remain out of jail who would otherwise be imprisoned.

"But it's a completely different matter to start talking about using that sort of technology - ankle bracelets - for people who otherwise wouldn't need to be locked up," Mr Goldflam said.

"There's no legislative framework in place to empower anybody to require these devices to be worn, except in the current situation where people are subject to court orders because they've been convicted of certain offences or they've been placed on bail."