Yesterday @charlie_taylor6 wrote to @ShabanaMahmood invoking an Urgent Notification for HMP Manchester following our inspection from 17 September - 3 October 2024.
Police officers voluntarily surrendering their Tasers & firearms "risks London becoming less safe". Sir Mark Rowley said a third of officers were giving up their Taser accreditation, and more than a quarter were surrendering their firearm tickets. https://t.co/WjbWqX3u32
There's no money in prisons as well as no votes. But last year, sickness absence cost HMPPS 712,000 days with 40% being stress related. Make prisons safe, invest in staff welfare, training, leadership and you don't have to waste greater millions filling these gaps.
We canโt build our way out of this crisis. Next Government will have to consider executive releases, look at sentencing policy and review IPP sentences because there is no way @POAUnion will tolerate our capacity being breached.
#crisiswhatcrisis
If this incident does not improve the inadequate vetting , the insufficient recruitment process that doesnโt even include a face to face interview and overhaul initial training so its robust and weeds out those who are not suitable for the job then nothing will.
We need change.
Why do @hmpps think recruitment and retention is no longer an issue when we only have an actual net gain of 60 new recruits in March?
398 joiners
338 leavers.
Thatโs so bad !
#realitycheck@POAUnion