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<p>The vast majority of incidents are minor in nature and resolved quickly and professionally
without injury, damage or disruption to the running of the prison. Each incident is
investigated fully to ensure lessons are learnt and best practice in managing incidents
is shared across NOMS.</p><p> </p><p>Many incidents at height are relatively short
in duration, lasting less than 15 minutes, and take place on netting or over railings.
Hostage incidents are relatively rare and in many cases of hostage taking collusion
between the perpetrator and victim is suspected. We do not tolerate violence or disorder
in our prisons. Prisoners who take part in violent incidents can be referred to the
police for prosecution or receive additional time on their sentences following internal
adjudication.</p><p> </p><p>The tables attached provide numbers of incidents at height
and hostage incidents in each month between March 2014 and December 2015 and broken
down by establishment.</p><p> </p><p>Note: These figures have been drawn from the
NOMS Incident Reporting System. 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. Although the figures are shown to the last case the figures may
not be accurate to that level.</p>
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