Mobile phones are the most commonly used communications tool for incarcerated criminals, although they also pass on messages through prison visits and regular phone calls.
, which carried out the study, said: ‘The scale of the challenge is huge –mobile phone use is still a problem across prisons and we can see the effects of the contact from within prison to the gangs on the outside.’
Mobile phones are the most commonly used communications tool for incarcerated criminals, although they also pass on messages through prison visits and regular phone calls In 2018, the agency mapped 4,629 organised crime groups across the country, while in 2020 it said 1,716 gangs were involved in the illicit supply of drugs.
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