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<p /> <p>Violence in prisons is not tolerated and assaults on our hardworking staff
are unacceptable. We do not underestimate the hard work and challenges that prison
staff face on a daily basis which is why we have been working extremely closely with
the police and CPS to tackle this issue. A new joint protocol produced by the Prison
Service, Crown Prosecution Service and Association of Chief Police Officers will set
out that when there are serious assaults on prison staff, the perpetrators will be
prosecuted unless there is a good reason why not.</p><p>The number of assaults on
staff is published in the Safety in Custody Bulletin available at this link: <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics"
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/safety-in-custody-statistics</a>.
Table 3.1 provides the total number of staff assaults whereas the number of prisoner
on officer assaults can be found in table 3.8 of the annual tables.</p><p>With the
exception of prison officers assaulted during “prisoner on officer” assaults, the
role of the staff member involved is not recorded and so any staff members that are
assaulted in other types of assault incident cannot be identified by their specific
role. The incident reporting system does not record detailed information about staff
members that are assaulted and so we are not able to provide the requested breakdown.
Whilst this information is not held centrally assaults on staff are taken very seriously
and as such are recorded and managed locally.</p>
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