Berwyn Prison

(asked on 1st February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many times the command suite has been opened to deal with incidents at HMP Berwyn since that prison's opening.


Answered by
Phillip Lee Portrait
Phillip Lee
This question was answered on 9th February 2018

Since opening in Spring 2017, the Gold command suite (based in London) has not been opened for any incidents at HMP Berwyn.

HMP Berwyn has opened the local command suite (Silver) for a total of 4 occasions. All incidents were managed locally.

The National Tactical Response Group (NTRG) has been contacted on 3 occasions regarding incidents at HMP Berwyn, on one occurrence they were stood down prior to arriving at the Prison.

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