the Ushers in the country’s prisons must keep track of the number of prisoners and unlock more doors per shift. Nationwide, there were 3,500 in unfilled shifts in Probation, in the month of march. The worst it looks in the Capital Region, where there was at 1,300 unfilled shifts. The figure shows, as an Additional Leaf has been released from the Fængselsforbundet.
the deputy chairman of The Fængselsforbundet, Stay Provide Sørensen, explains that the unfilled guards either need to be covered by overtime or by reducing the number of on duty cops. Therefore, he believes that the lack of prison staff, both prison staff and inmates.
– We have gone from working seven to eight hours a day to tolvtimersvagter. We have had to remove all the social contact with the inmates, as well as support and motivationsdelen. It is a part of our work that goes out to get the inmates out as better people than when they came in here, ” says Bo Yde Sørensen.
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the President sees the development as a sign that it is difficult to recruit students to betjentskolen. It is, according to Fængselsforbundet along with that one some years ago changed the training, so that students under training should be at SU for nine months out of three years.
– We are primarily interested in getting co-workers with life experience. We know that adult humans have established themselves with a husband or wife, children, car, house and garden. They find it difficult to say that one party must go on SU in nine months. It discourages many, ” says Bo Yde Sørensen.
Director of Probation Thorkild Fogde admits that the number of unfilled shifts are ’too high’, but pointing in the same round that it is to be seen in relation to the total number of guards.
– We have a bemandingsunderskud in Probation at the moment. It means, therefore, that there are unfilled shifts. We do a whole number of things to rectify. It comes, unfortunately, to take time before we catch up again with the staff and evidence. It is the basic situation, he says.
With the Social democrats believe spokesman Trine Team that the situation is ’completely untenable’ and a ’very serious’ problem. She doubts that Prison recruitment campaigns is enough to turn the tide, so more people are looking into training as a prison guard.
– It is not enough that he just pushes it over to the prison and Probation service and says it has the tabs on it, and that they have time in the recruitment campaigns, she says.
A man at work in the Nyborg Prison on the island of Fyn. Photo: Mads Nissen Ritzau Scanpix
the Rapporteur is far from satisfied with the ministry of justice handling of the case. She believes that there is a need to make it more attractive to become a prison guard in order to get more people to check on the training. Therefore, the calls for she immediate action from the minister of justice.
– He must simply get your finger out. We run the risk that it all breaks down, if he doesn’t get put in with the same. It here requires political accountability. And it requires a minister, who sets out trying to find solutions to this massive challenge, says Trine Team.
the Danish people’s party spokesman, Peter Kofod, calls on mr Søren Pape Poulsen to convene the circle of political parties behind the agreement on Probation in order to get clarity over the situation. In his view, namely the ’big challenges’ and ’big problems’ in the Probation.
– We must know what is the cost of doing it that way will be. It will also lead to other discussions about other programmes so possibly should be on the training allowance. Our politielever is also on the SU, when they go to school, he says.
the Government concluded in november 2017; and an agreement with the Social democrats and the Danish people’s Party on a flerårsaftale of prison economy in 2018-2021. Subsequently, the Alternative, Radical Left and Socialist people’s Party joined the circle of political parties.
the minister of Justice, mr Søren Pape Poulsen stresses that the government has added more than eur 600 million. kr. to the prison and Probation service and establish the country’s first school for prison officers in Western denmark. At the same time, the government has a target to recruit at least 225 uniformed employees in 2019.
– It is no secret that our prisons are pressed for time, among other things, because the government’s many initiatives have helped over 400 gang members are now behind bars. But I see of course on the staffing of the country’s prisons with great seriousness, and therefore, the government has given priority to the area high, says in a written response from the minister to the Extra Blade.
the Minister is, however, well aware that the increase in the number of prisoners has put the staff in the country’s prisons under a massive pressure of work. Therefore he sends now Prison management in the thinking box.
– But it is also clear that we must do more, and therefore I have asked probation to consider all relevant actions to address the situation, writes Søren Pape Poulsen.
In november 2018, the government entered into, and DF an agreement on the budget bill for 2019, which among other things implies that by the end of 2019, entering into an agreement with a partner country to establish a Danish prison places abroad. The ministry of justice will provide to Ekstra Bladet, that one is already in close dialogue with a specific partner country, which has shown great interest in order to take care of the prisoners from Denmark.
the Capital 1.300 guards
Sealand of the 1,000 guards
southern denmark 500 guards
in Mid – and north Jutland 700 guards
a total of 3,500 security guards
