Prisons: Civil Disorder
(asked on 30th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, (a) on how many occasions, (b) in which prisons and (c) for what incidents the National Tactical Response Group was called out in each month since January 2017.
This question was answered on 7th February 2018
The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) provides additional support staff or resources to prisons to help them deal with a variety of incidents. The overwhelming majority of call outs are for non-violent incidents, including where they attended as a precaution and when the situation was resolved locally. NTRG deployments are detailed in the attached appendix.