We have committed to take forward mobile phone signal blocking, as we indicated in the Government response to David Blakey’s report, “Disrupting the Supply of Illicit Drugs into Prisons”. We are working closely with the Home Office Scientific Development Branch to trial and evaluate a range of disruption technologies.
Disrupting mobile phones is one part of our three-tiered strategy to minimise the number of illicit mobile phones entering prison, and find and disrupt those that do enter. We are rolling out a range of technology to strengthen local searching and security strategies, including BOSS chairs for every prison which does not already have one, as recommended in the Blakey report.