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Written question asked by Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru) on Wednesday, 12 June 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 June 2019. It was answered by Edward Argar (Conservative) on Friday, 21 June 2019 on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

Prison Officers: Misconduct

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many cases of alleged (a) misconduct and (b) gross misconduct by prison officers that reach proceedings have (i) not been proven, (ii) led to management advice, (iii) led to a written warning and (iv) led to dismissal in each of the last three years.

Answer

Table 1: Conduct & discipline cases1 for misconduct and gross misconduct by band 3-5 prison officers2, by outcome3, 2015/16 to 2017/18

Misconduct

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Not been proven

10

26

13

Management advice & guidance

20

 29 19

Written warning

 178 202 197

Dismissal

 ~ ~ ~

Other outcomes4

 71 55 64
Gross Misconduct

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Not been proven

12

 7 6

Management advice & guidance

4

 7 8

Written warning

 59 56 70

Dismissal

 72 74 80

Other outcomes4

 28 35 52

Notes:

Notes:

1. A case is defined as a unique combination of case and individual member of staff. Where more than one member of staff is involved in a single case these are counted separately in this table. Equally staff involved in more than one case during the year are counted multiple times.

2. Includes Band 3-4 / Prison Officer (incl specialists), Band 4 / Supervising Officer and Band 5 / Custodial Managers.

3. Information on the outcomes of any appeal is not included.

4. Includes where cases have been withdrawn/closed or where other disciplinary action was taken, such as financial penalties, regrades/downgrades, verbal warnings.

'~ denotes suppressed values of 2 or fewer or other values which would allow values of 2 or fewer to be derived by subtraction. Low numbers are suppressed to prevent disclosure in accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
263824
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Disciplinary proceedings Misconduct Prison officers
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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