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HM Prison Norwich: Smuggling

Answer

From 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2007 there were 208 drugs finds and 149 mobile phones finds at Norwich prison. The figures are broken down by month in the following table. As the table demonstrates there has been a decrease in drug finds year on year from 86 in 2005 to 52 in 2007. The assessment is that the reduced number of drug finds has coincided with a drop in the Positive Mandatory Drug Testing rate at Norwich to 5.67 per cent. (April 2007—January 2008), which indicates that a significant proportion of drugs coming into the establishment are being intercepted. Norwich has strategies in place to maximise mobile phone finds, and the number of such finds suggests the strategy is generating some success. It is not Prison Service policy to disclose details of individual establishment strategies for intercepting contraband.

Drug and mobile phone finds from January 2005 to December 2007
	Drugs	Mobile phones
2005
January	17	3
February	17	3
March	5	1
April	2	2
May	7	10
June	4	2
July	5	4
August	3	5
September	3	1
October	8	5
November	4	3
December	11	9
Total	86	48
2006
January	4	6
February	8	6
March	7	3
April	7	5
May	15	5
June	8	4
July	6	2
August	5	1
September	4	1
October	1	2
November	3	4
December	2	4
Total	70	43
2007
January	1	3
February	6	7
March	8	5
April	9	9
May	3	1
June	7	3
July	6	7
August	3	1
September	3	6
October	2	9
November	1	1
December	3	6
Total	208	149

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

472 c2368-9W; 190823

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Smuggling HMP Norwich

Link

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