Prison Officers: Disciplinary Proceedings

(asked on 12th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of disciplinary cases in which prison officers have been placed under investigation lasting (a) less than one month, (b) between one and three months, (c) between three and six months, (d) between six and twelve months and (e) over twelve months have progressed to (i) misconduct and (ii) gross misconduct proceedings in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 21st June 2019

Table 1a: Proportion of Conduct and Discipline cases1, involving Prison Officers2, which progressed to misconduct proceedings, by length of investigation3, 2015/16 to 2017/18

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Less than one month

75%

71%

74%

Between one and three months

53%

58%

48%

Between three and six months

47%

60%

47%

Between six and 12 months

50%

63%

67%

Over 12 months

100%

100%

14%

Table 1b: Proportion of Conduct and Discipline cases1, involving Prison Officers3, which progressed to gross misconduct proceedings, by length of investigation3, 2015/16 to 2017/18

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

Less than one month

20%

20%

24%

between one and three months

45%

40%

49%

between three and six months

43%

36%

43%

between six and 12 months

17%

38%

33%

over 12 months

0%

0%

86%

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. Staff with no end date in the data, indicating open cases, have been excluded

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