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<p>The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has in place a comprehensive range
of security measures and searching techniques to detect items of contraband including
alcohol and to prevent smuggling into prisons. In addition we use specially trained
dogs to detect illicit alcohol.</p><p> </p><p>NOMS does not centrally record as a
separate category the number of occasions on which alcohol is confiscated in prisons
and could not provide the information without incurring disproportionate cost.</p><p>
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