Operation Safeguard
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Operation Safeguard
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Operation Safeguard is a contingency plan to deal with prison overcrowding in the United Kingdom; it involves using cells at police stations as accommodation for prisoners when the number of cells in prisons becomes critically low. On 9 October 2006, the Home Secretary John Reid announced the implementation of Operation Safeguard as the prison population had reached 79,843 leaving only 125 spaces. The policy is supported by the Association of Chief Police Officers, it outlined a list of criteria
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2023-03-10T17:53:07Z
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