Number of staff

Summary

The requester asked for details on remand prisoners, their privileges, work eligibility, and specific vocational training programs. The Department of Home Affairs disclosed the number of remand prisoners and their visit privileges but stated that records on remand duration and specific training data were not held.

Key Facts

• There are currently 23 prisoners on remand.
• No records are held calculating how long each prisoner has been on remand.
• Prisoners on remand receive an extra visit day per week compared to committed prisoners.
• Only sentenced prisoners are considered and risk assessed for outside work.
• The authority does not hold information regarding training on excavators, HGVs, forklifts, or airport bankman roles.

Data Disclosed

• 23
• 2020-02-24
• 2020-03-09
• 1194050

Exemptions Cited

• Information not held

Original Request

How many folk are in on remand, how many months has each one been on remand? What privileges do they have over a committed prisoner? Are any allow allowed out to work How many receive training on 360 excavator, wheeled digger, HGV, fork lift, and receive training as a bankman on the airport if not why not.2 men could strip electric cable small machine 100z% safe. The cable could be sourced from the 4 civic amenity sites all electric eqt snipped of and and putting in a cubic metre boxbom avpallettana

Data Tables (1)

Full Response Text

Chief Executive's Office DHA Headquarters Tromode, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM2 5AP

Telephone: (01624) 694313 Fax: (01624) 621298 Web address: www.gov.im/dha Email: GeneralEnquiries.DHA@dha.gov.im

Our ref: 1194050 9 March 2020

Dear ###

We write further to your request which was received on 24 February 2020 and which states:

"How many folk are in on remand, how many months has each one been on remand? There are currently 23 prisoners on remand. (There no record held that calculates how long each Prisoner has been held on remand). What privileges do they have over a committed prisoner? Prisoners on remand receive an extra visit day per week. Are any allow allowed out to work Only sentenced prisoners are considered and risk assessed for outside work. How many receive training on 360 excavator, wheeled digger, HGV, fork lift, and receive training as a bankman on the airport if not why not.2 men could strip electric cable small machine 100z% safe. The cable could be sourced from the 4 civic amenity sites all electric eqt snipped of and and putting in a cubic metre boxbom avpallettana" Information not held. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find some of the information that you have requested. Not Department of Home Affairs Please quote the reference number 1194050 in any future communications.

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I will now close your request as of this date.

Yours sincerely