Prison officials demanded that staff be asked to perform electric shocks while guarding Britain’s most dangerous prisons when they met with the Attorney General Wednesday.
The meeting with Shabana Mahmood comes after one of Hashem Abedi’s men in charge of the bombing of Manchester Arena Throw hot oil at officers and stab them with temporary weapons HMP Frankland in County Durham.
Mark Fairhurst, president of the Prison Officers Association (POA), told the BBC that they are “calling for tactical use of Taser”.
“We must take better measures to better protect our prison officials,” Mahmood said in a statement.
“What I worry about is that when we face life-threatening situations, we will no longer have tactical choices.
“If the expandable baton and incompetent spray don’t work adequately, we won’t have any other options.”
“That’s why we call for tactical use of TASER. We want staff who are specially trained on the site to deal with events that have the ability to deploy Taser to eliminate this threat.
“We are not that way at the moment.”
Currently, prison officials carry only expandable batons and PAVA incapacity sprays – synthetic pepper sprays.
The POA will also update calls on all employees to have stabbed vests.
Mr. Fairhurst also called for the American “super” rules imposed on Britain’s most dangerous prisoners.
This means that the high-risk inmates selected will leave the cell only if they are handcuffed and escorted by three employees. guardian newspaper.
Nor will they be mixed with other prisoners, they will be limited to their fundamental rights and privileged rights.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said the incident will conduct a comprehensive independent review of the incident, which has attracted criticism Survivors and victims’ families Manchester Arena bombing.
Security measures in the separation center did get prisoners into the kitchen – Abedi carried out the attack – but Moj paused that after the incident.
Mahmood said the review would “provide recommendations and findings that suggest whether there is any change in the process or policy that HMP Frankland can implement and that it can be implemented more widely throughout the high-security estate”.
She said an internal review of the protective armor would also be conducted.
The stun gun was not mentioned in the statement.
Abedi helped his older brother Salman plan the Manchester Arena bombing and was sentenced to 55 years in prison for murdering 22 people.
He was once held in a separation center – Frankland held a handful of prisoners who were considered dangerous and extremist.
He moved to Frankland after an earlier attack on prison officials at Belmarsh Prison in 2020, with his sentence of three years and 10 months.
Abedi has since been transferred to the High Security Belmarsh Prison in London.
