Coordinate a targeted search and report the intelligence

What is going on

A mobile phone was found in a mattress in Unit 2 cell 14 on 5 September. Since then two intelligence reports from unit officers describe items being passed between cells 11 to 18 on the upper landing after evening lock-in, and a visitor was refused entry on 8 September with tobacco in her shoe. The Security and Intelligence Manager has approved a targeted search of the eight upper landing cells on Thursday morning and asked you to plan and run it under the Cell and Area Search Procedure with a two-officer team drawn from the roster. The search must be recorded cell by cell, including nil finds, and finished before the 11 am program movement.

Your brief

Plan and conduct the targeted search of Unit 2 cells 11 to 18, record every cell and every find correctly in the Contraband and Property Register and the Incident and Use of Force Register, and write a short intelligence summary that tells the manager what the pattern of finds suggests and what to do next.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Cell and Area Search Procedure and the Security and Contraband Control Policy and list the approvals, equipment and records a targeted search requires.
• Write a search plan naming the reason, the cells, the team, the start time, the order of search and how prisoners will be removed and observe.
• Check the Roster and Post Allocation system to select two accredited officers for Thursday day shift without creating a vacant post.
• Conduct or simulate the search using the clockwise top-to-bottom method and record each cell, including nil finds, with start and end times and cell condition.
• Bag, label and register each find in the Contraband and Property Register and create the matching Incident and Use of Force Register entry with the correct category.
• Write an intelligence summary of no more than one page describing the finds, the pattern across cells, the likely source and two recommended actions.
• Brief the Unit 2 Senior Officer on the outcome and what to record on the handover.

What someone in this role would produce

• Search plan
• Cell by cell search record
• Contraband and Property Register and incident register entries
• Intelligence summary for the manager