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Article 3
1. General gate duties; in particular
the operation of electronic and manual gates, portals, x‑ray and metal detector equipment;
the routine searching of visitors and staff;
carrying out random or targeted searching of any person, acting upon the instruction and supervision of a prisoner custody officer or the director.
2. Control of visitors; in particular
checking in visitors (including identification of visitors and use of identification equipment);
receiving and searching visitors and property;
supervision of storage of visitors’ property in lockers;
the staffing of any external visitor centre;
control and escort of contractors and vehicles (including, where appropriate, searching);
carrying out random or targeted searching of any person, acting upon the instruction and supervision of a prisoner custody officer or the director.
3. Communications room or control room duties; in particular
monitoring CCTV equipment;
monitoring computerised security systems;
operating any internal radio communications system.
4. Carrying out patrols of the prison perimeter and grounds; in particular
assisting at fixed posts and at internal gates
supervision of alarm bell points at prisoner movement times.
5. Carrying out night patrol duties.
6. Searching duties:
searching of buildings and other areas of the prison;
searching of prisoner property, in particular X-ray searching of property, but not including prisoner accommodation or prisoner’s property contained in a cell.
7. Supervising select prisoner work parties; in particular work parties carrying out duties in stores, the mess and the kitchen.
8. Carrying out of Fire Officer duties, and the use of Short Duration Breathing Apparatus (SDBA) or other fire safety systems, which have to be performed by a trained and suitably experienced worker.
9. Routine administrative work ancillary to custodial duties, in particular
dealing with prison correspondence, but not including correspondence to or from prisoners;
mail distribution and checking;
obtaining prisoner signatures for private cash;
monitoring of telephones or recordings of telephone calls;
inputting information to computerised or manual records.
10. Carrying out canteen and kit exchange, general stores duties or acting as a driver or navigator.
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