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<p>Prisons deploy a comprehensive range of robust searching and security techniques
to detect, deter and disrupt the supply of unauthorised items, including weapons,
both at the point of entry to the prison or concealed within the prison.</p><p> </p><p>The
number of incidents recorded of knives or other weapons being confiscated by staff,
and how many prisoners have been found in possession of knives or other weapons, in
each prison in England and Wales in each year between 2011 and 2013 is recorded on
a central incident reporting system, but not in a discrete category. In order to establish
the number of recorded confiscations or possessions for the period in question would
require the interrogation of over 30,000 individual electronic incident files. This
could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p>
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