Guidance

Annex B: Requirement relating to Terrorism and Terrorism-Connected offences and prisoners convicted of Terrorism, TACT/TACT-connected offences prisoner offending and terrorist risk prisoners

Updated 27 September 2023

Applies to England and Wales

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This annex provides additional guidance and mandatory actions relating to potential terrorist offending, and offending conducted by non-terrorist prisoners who have been identified as presenting a terrorist risk.

Cohorts covered by annex

  1. Terrorism offences committed by anyone
  2. Offending by TACT or TACT-connected prisoners
  3. Offending by other prisoners who present a terrorism risk.

  • the prison will ensure prisoners included in the three cohorts can be identified by staff members, with this information available from the Security and Intelligence Department

  • where any prisoner in the three cohorts listed above is suspected of having committed an offence classified as requiring immediate or mandatory referral (as detailed in para 3 and annex A) please refer to the detailed guidance with this annex for actions to be taken

  • where terrorism offences are committed in prisons, due to the very high public interest in ensuring that prison conduct amounting to terrorism offending should be subject to the criminal process, prisons will refer these offences to the police within the appropriate timeframe as detailed in paragraph 3, that is, as soon as possible or in any case within 24 hours

  • where offences outside of paragraph 3 are committed in prisons by cohorts ii and iii above, prisons will refer these offences to the police within the appropriate timeframe as detailed in paragraph 5, that is, within 7 days

  • the prison will notify CT Policing of offences by the 3 cohorts (and any referrals made to local police) in line with the detailed guidance that accompanies this annex

  • detailed guidance for ongoing liaison, oversight and coordination between the prison and CT Policing, following notification of an offence as described above, accompanies this annex

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