Part VIII Prison Services and the Prison Service
E1Chapter II Scotland
Prisoner escorts
103 Monitoring of prisoner escort arrangements.
1
Prisoner escort arrangements shall include the appointment of a prisoner escort monitor, that is to say, a F1member of the staff of the Scottish Administration whose duty it shall be—
a
to keep the arrangements under review and to report on them to the Scottish Ministers
b
to investigate and report to the F2Scottish Ministers on any allegations made against prisoner custody officers acting in pursuance of the arrangements; and
c
to report to the F2Scottish Ministers on any alleged breaches of discipline on the part of prisoners for whose transfer or custody such officers so acting are responsible.
2
In section 7(2) (functions of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland) of the 1989 Act—
a
after “Inspector” there shall be inserted “
—(a)
”
; and
b
at the end there shall be inserted—
; and
b
to inspect the conditions in which prisoners are transported or held in pursuance of prisoner escort arrangements (within the meaning of section 102 of the M1Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) and to report to the Secretary of State on them.
Pt. VIII Chapter II extends to Scotland only except that ss. 102(1) to (3), 104, 105 and 117 extend also to the British Islands so far as relating to the transfer of prisoners to or from premises situated in a part of the British Islands outside Scotland see s. 172(12)