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<p>HMPPS is committed to investigating and eliminating corruption to ensure prisons
remain a safe and secure environment for staff, prisoners and visitors.</p><p> </p><p>There
are over 46,000 people working in the Prison and Probation Service and the vast majority
are dedicated and hard-working. However, when we do find evidence of wrongdoing by
staff we do not hesitate to take firm disciplinary action.</p><p> </p><p>We have invested
heavily in security measures to prevent contraband entering the estate. This includes
training more than 300 sniffer dogs, rolling out scanners and transforming our intelligence
capabilities. We have also built up our ability to work with law enforcement to disrupt
criminal networks. We use body searches and staff can be subject to intelligence-based
searches at any time.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: Total number of HMPPS prison
staff<sup>1</sup> disciplined<sup>2</sup> for bringing contraband into prisons<sup>3</sup>,
by role, for the years 2013/14 to 2017/18</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Role</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013/14
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17
</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bands 6-8
/ Managers</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band
3-5<sup>4</sup> Prison Officers</p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band
2 / Operational Support</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Band
3 / Administrative Officer</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other
Admin</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Instructional
Officer</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Psychology</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Industrial
/ Facilities</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other
and Unknown Grades</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>~</p></td><td><p>0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>29</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Notes:
<br>1. Staff subject to at least one conduct and discipline that was concluded during
the year</p><p>2. Conduct and discipline cases are defined as where a penalty has
been imposed on a member of HMPPS staff for a reason of conduct</p><p><br>3. Contraband
is considered to be any prohibited good trafficked into the prison by a member of
staff</p><p>4. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl. specialists), Band 4 / Supervising
Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers</p><p><br> ~ denotes suppressed values of
2 or fewer, or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by
subtraction. In some instances, zeroes have also been suppressed in order to ensure
that low numbers cannot be calculated</p><p>Low numbers are suppressed to prevent
disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998</p><p><br> <br> <br> As
with all HR databases, extracts are taken at a fixed point in time, to ensure consistency
of reporting. However, the database itself is dynamic and where updates to the database
are made late, subsequent to the taking of the extract, these updates will not be
reflected in figures produced by the extract. For this reason, HR data are unlikely
to be precisely accurate.</p>
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