Durham Prison
(asked on 10th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what contraband and illegal substances of each type entered HM Prison Durham in each month since May 2010.
The National Offender Management Service takes the importation of drugs and all other items of contraband into prisons extremely seriously. Prisons deploy a comprehensive range of robust searching and security measures to detect such items at the point of entry to the prison. The data below refers to items of contraband and illegal substances discovered having entered HMP Durham.
Prisons are required to centrally report all seizures of drugs, mobile phones and firearms/ammunition. Seizures of drugs and mobile phones reported by HMP Durham for the period May 2010 to September 2014, are provided in the table below. No firearms or ammunition were discovered to have entered HMP Durham during this period. Specific records of other items of contraband are not centrally collected in a way which allows statistically accurate data to be provided.
Table 1: Seizures of drugs and mobile phones at HMP Durham May 2010 to September 2014
Month | Drugs | Mobile Phone |
May-10 | 2 | 0 |
Jun-10 | 0 | 1 |
Jul-10 | 3 | 6 |
Aug-10 | 2 | 3 |
Sep-10 | 0 | 3 |
Oct-10 | 0 | 2 |
Nov-10 | 1 | 6 |
Dec-10 | 0 | 2 |
Jan-11 | 0 | 2 |
Feb-11 | 0 | 2 |
Mar-11 | 0 | 1 |
Apr-11 | 15 | 1 |
May-11 | 8 | 0 |
Jun-11 | 9 | 3 |
Jul-11 | 15 | 3 |
Aug-11 | 17 | 3 |
Sep-11 | 11 | 1 |
Oct-11 | 6 | 14 |
Nov-11 | 16 | 9 |
Dec-11 | 13 | 2 |
Jan-12 | 17 | 6 |
Feb-12 | 18 | 5 |
Mar-12 | 21 | 1 |
Apr-12 | 13 | 1 |
May-12 | 20 | 2 |
Jun-12 | 18 | 0 |
Jul-12 | 8 | 1 |
Aug-12 | 19 | 2 |
Sep-12 | 12 | 0 |
Oct-12 | 13 | 1 |
Nov-12 | 19 | 1 |
Dec-12 | 11 | 3 |
Jan-13 | 6 | 2 |
Feb-13 | 3 | 0 |
Mar-13 | 0 | 1 |
Apr-13 | 4 | 4 |
May-13 | 3 | 1 |
Jun-13 | 2 | 0 |
Jul-13 | 1 | 5 |
Aug-13 | 1 | 6 |
Sep-13 | 3 | 0 |
Oct-13 | 0 | 0 |
Nov-13 | 0 | 0 |
Dec-13 | 0 | 0 |
Jan-14 | 4 | 0 |
Feb-14 | 1 | 0 |
Mar-14 | 3 | 0 |
Apr-14 | 1 | 0 |
May-14 | 8 | 0 |
Jun-14 | 3 | 0 |
Jul-14 | 0 | 4 |
Aug-14 | 3 | 0 |
Sep-14 | 1 | 0 |
Notes:
Many drugs are similar in appearance and in many cases drugs seized are not categorically identified by scientific analysis. Some will have been identified using indicative reagent or Marquis tests. Many will have been identified by appearance only.
One ‘mobile phone’ find may constitute a handset containing one SIM card or media card, a handset only, or a SIM card only.
All figures have been drawn from live administrative data systems which may be amended at any time. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.