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<p>The vast majority of prison staff are hardworking and dedicated. A minority of
staff engage in corrupt activity.</p><p> </p><p>HM Prison & Probation Service
has a zero-tolerance policy to drugs conveyed into prisons and take appropriate action
to a small number of prison staff who break the rules. Our £100m Security Investment
Programme, aimed at reducing crime in prisons, including reducing the conveyance of
illicit items such as drugs and mobile phones, is ongoing. This includes increased
resource to pursue corruption, as well as established a new ‘Prevent’ function, aimed
at building staff resilience against corruption.</p><p> </p><p>Below is a table showing
the breakdown of staff investigated from July 23 to Dec 2023 relating to the conveyance
of drugs.</p><p><strong>Table 1</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases
where Officer Investigated</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Non-Officer
Investigated</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p>104</p></td><td><p>42</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul</strong></p></td><td><p>20</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep</strong></p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct</strong></p></td><td><p>19</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov</strong></p></td><td><p>23</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec</strong></p></td><td><p>5</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Below
is a table showing the breakdown of staff arrested from 2019 to Dec 2023 to date relating
to the conveyance of drugs.</p><p><strong>Table 2</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases
where Officer Arrested</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Non-Officer Arrested</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p>12</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Below is a table showing the breakdown of staff charged from 2019 to Dec 2023
to date relating to the conveyance of drugs.</p><p><strong>Table 3</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>Month</em></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases
where Officer Charged*</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Cases where Non-Officer Charged*</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Jul</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Aug</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sep</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Oct</strong></p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Nov</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Dec</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p> </p><p><strong>Source: </strong>Linkspace Case Management System.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><p>Linkspace
is the Counter Corruption Unit’s (CCU) Case Management System used to record and track
cases linked to corruption.</p><p> </p><p>Data provided by the Counter Corruption
(CCU) have the following Caveats applied below;</p><p>1) The new Counter Corruption
Unit came into being in April 2019, with a new structure and a change to ways of working.
During the initial transition period, and prior to the introduction of the new Case
Management System, it is possible that not all arrests were being captured.</p><p>2)
Prior to April 2019, corruption in HMPPS was managed by the Corruption Prevention
Unit</p><p>(CPU). The CPU was a largely centralised unit focused on sanitising and
disseminating all</p><p>corruption related intelligence to the Police, with an individual
Regional Corruption</p><p>Prevention Manager (RCPM) in each geographical region offering
advice and support to</p><p>prisons in managing corruption, Hence data prior to April
2019 is not available.</p><p>3) Data includes Non-Directly Employed Staff (public
or private) as they provide a service on behalf of HMPPS.</p><p>4) Officers ‘charged*’
is not an assured metric, the data below is likely very underrepresented given it
is substantially lower than our CJS outcomes i.e., CJS sentences, court fines, conditional
discharges etc over this period.</p><p>5) The Investigations data is all operations
opened on linkspace that relate to conveyance of drugs, for officers and non-officers.
Some investigations are based off limited intelligence and many are unproven.</p>
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