Contraband smuggling - staff/visitors and drones

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Dear HM Prison Service,

For 2016 and 2017 can I have totals for:

1) Any incidents of contraband smuggling that were not done with a drone, i.e. were smugging by staff, visitors or any other means that was not a drone.
b) The totals for contraband smuggling done by a drone.

Yours faithfully,

I Hudson

SOCT Correspondence,

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Dear I Hudson
Please find attached response to your FOI request.
 
Kind regards
Corporate Services Hub
 
 

Dear HM Prison Service,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of HM Prison Service's handling of my FOI request 'Contraband smuggling - staff/visitors and drones'.

I haven't received the information I sought which is simply some statistics, looking at other FOI requests similar data has been provided. Having looked at the annual statistics I can't see an answer to the questions either.

The information I required for question 1:
1) Any incidents of contraband smuggling that were not done with a drone, i.e. were smugging by staff, visitors or any other means that was not a drone.

The annual reports do not seem to detail contraband smuggling by staff or by visitors, I can only see overall totals of contraband in prisons which doesn't answer the question:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collection...

Could you direct me to such a document and the page if I have missed this data as this question was rejected on the basis it was due to be published in July's annual update?

On question 2, I asked only for a figure of contraband smuggling done by a drone. As this is only a figure, a count it can not be argued fairly to preduce justice. This exact question has been answered by FOIA to the press association on previous years: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35641453, 33 in 2015 for example.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

I Hudson

SOCT Correspondence,

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Good Afternoon,
 
Please find attached a response to your recent FOI request.
 
 
Kind regards,
Corporate Services