The number of covert devices being used has soared across Scotland
CRIMINALS at a Glasgow jail are using drones to try and smuggle drugs and mobile phones into prison grounds.– with a new investigation revealing that a number of drones have been used to pilot illicit substances and handsets over the walls of HMP Barlinnie in Riddrie.
Criminals have turned to the high-tech method of breaching security after the introduction of a policy to photocopy prisoners’ mail stopped inmates receiving psychoactive substances which were being sprayed onto the pieces of paper. He said: “It is clear criminals are now using drones to try and smuggle dangerous drugs and contraband into the prison estate. Thanks to the Scottish Conservatives we forced an end to drug-soaked mail and post getting into cells, but organised gangs will stop at nothing to infiltrate prisons.
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