The National Offender Management Service strategy to reduce supply and demand for drugs includes a comprehensive range of security measures and searching techniques to detect items of contraband including alcohol and prevent smuggling into establishments. There is also a treatment framework to address prisoners' alcohol-related problems, which provides a bench-mark against which prisons can formulate an appropriate local response.
In order to reduce alcohol usage, prisons deploy a robust and comprehensive range of security measures and searching techniques as part of their individual searching strategies in order to detect items of contraband and prevent their importation into establishments, as set out in the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) National Security Framework (NSF).