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<p>If an incident involving a drone occurs, prisons will invoke appropriate contingency
plans and will work alongside the police and CPS to ensure those responsible are caught.
NOMS are exploring research options with the Home Office Centre for Applied Science
and Technology (CAST) on detection and mitigation technology for drones.</p><br /><p>There
were 30 reported drone related incidents between 1 December 2014 and 30 November 2015.
This includes drone finds and drone sightings by prison staff in and around public
and private prisons in England and Wales.</p><br /><p>Individual prisons will invoke
the appropriate contingency plan relevant to the circumstances of the incident involving
a drone. This includes, for example, working with the police and CPS to ensure those
responsible for an incident involving a drone are caught and, if appropriate, prosecuted.</p><br
/><p>These figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems. Care is
taken when processing and analysing the returns, but the detail collected is subject
to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.</p>
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