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The Passport Fiasco - Now The Prison Fiasco

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OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 29 Jun 2014 16:06

The government has closed around 16 prisons in the past four years and as a result many prison officers were made redundant, albeit some took voluntary redundancy. It looks like they are going to do with prison officers - what they did with regular armed forces personnel with their plan to replace them with reservists.

I think the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has been taking advice from his colleague Philip Hammond the Defence Secretary, there again maybe this is a government policy that we will see introduced to other services such as the police, fire, ambulance, and other similar services - I say this because:-

The government is planning to set up a reserve force of prison officers for England and Wales, the BBC has learned.

The initiative was described by the Ministry of Justice as the HM Prison Service Reserve, in a letter sent to ex-prison officers to gauge interest.

Those who sign up could be called in on short-term contracts from August.

The MoJ explained in the letter the move would help it respond to short-term demands, such as a rise in inmate numbers or "operational pressures".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28078857