Bespoke TSCM Training For Prison Service Staff
Due to high demand from our clients, Verrimus TSCM Training facility now offer bespoke TSCM Training for prison service personnel. Our course has been designed in consultation with prison service personnel to ensure it meets training needs analysis. This ensures that our training covers all main aspects of detainee-facing prison service roles. Through our qualitative research with prison service personnel, we developed a bespoke course which addresses the needs of our clients.
Within restricted and secure facilities, there are areas where staff need to discuss sensitive or confidential information. If these conversations are not private due to the deployment of eavesdropping attacks, this can have serious consequences. Additionally there are concerns that detained persons could continue threats, harassment or coordinate the continuation of criminal activities.
What’s Involved?
Our bespoke course, tailored for those in varied roles within the prison service, consists of;
- awareness of the variation of technical surveillance attacks,
- the detection, identification and pinpointing the location of unauthorised communication devices.
- in-house TSCM capability building,
- procuring externally provided TSCM services
- procuring and evaluating TSCM measurement tools
Realism
Every bespoke Verrimus TSCM Training Course involves a level of realism. Our training services are not matched by any other TSCM training provider! (Though some within the industry may claim that they can match our service delivery.) We emphasise the importance of experiential learning. The course content is constantly reviewed and refreshed so we can ensure emerging threats are included. Verrimus Operational TSCM courses, like our organisation, remain agile and adaptable for all circumstances. All Verrimus clients have the opportunity to shape and adapt our TSCM courses to tailor them to to their specific role/responsibilities. We place our clients’ learning needs at the centre of the course development. We deliver quality, professional TSCM training every time!
Of course, the use of unauthorised communication devices in UK prisons is something we have commented on previously. There are solutions, perhaps the question is whether the UK Prison Service is serious in mitigating and preventing the use? Is there currently a reluctance to discover unauthorised phones in UK prisons? Obviously, communication devices in areas without authorisation, pose a privacy compromising threat to other inmates, prison staff and the wider communities. Denying the use of them remains a priority for the prison service, we are told. Being able to also monitor the traffic from an unauthorised device, is incredibly valuable for intelligence purposes.
Below are just some examples of the recent UK press stories involving unauthorised mobile phone use in prisons.
Tiny phones are being smuggled into prison up people’s backsides | Metro News
Prisoners swallowing £1,000 micro mobile phones to hide them from guards – Mirror Online
Scots gangland enforcer caught with secret phone sim in maximum security jail – Daily Record
Contact us to learn more about our bespoke TSCM Training courses for prison service personnel. If you have suggestions for any specific course content or focus and you are part of our client base, let us know.