It's been a problem for a decade - and but that could soon change
It has been a recurring problem for prison officers over a decade. Drugs, mobile phones and even TV boxsets are among the items that have been carried into Greater Manchester's prisons using drones over recent years.
Prisons Minister Damian Hinds said: "This is the latest step in the war we are winning to stop drugs, weapons and phones getting into our prisons. These virtual ‘no-fly’ zones - along with our new airport-style X-ray scanners - mean we can clamp down better than ever on violence behind bars to keep both prisoners and staff safe from harm."
In late 2016, one drone discovered with phones, cannabis, spice and steroids by police near Forest Bank was found to have been used on 41 flights. But Forest Bank is far from the only prison affected by drones over the past decade. The dramatic plot failed after the drone was caught in security netting. Two years earlier, smugglers crashed a drone carrying drugs and phones at a yard inside HMP Manchester.
In March 2016, a drone carrying cannabis and steroids valued at nearly £4,000 crashed inside the Strangeways walls, while a month later drone with a suspected camera sparked a security alert at the prison before it flew back over the wall. The Prison Officers' Association previously told the M.E.N. how the use of drones was 'quite common', with criminals using 'any means whatsoever to fund criminality inside the prison system'.
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