Ken Foy
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That's it.
Intelligence indicates that there's not too many people with that skill set.
In there, you know, there's not dozens of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that would remain very common.
So Mount Joy Prison was the first to introduce it.
It's kind of described a state of the art, but essentially it's metal nets, right?
Yeah.
Which make a...
pretty much impossible for drones to get through.
I think since it was introduced in Mount Joy, the whole drone problem there has kind of almost went away.
So in Wheatfield, during the process of building these
steel nets mesh steel mesh in the exercise yards I think they spent 500 sorry 5 million euro on the project right so I think that might be due to be completed next year yeah because what was happening was the drones I don't know if the drones were set on fire they were carrying something that went on fire and they literally burned through the nets and
Yeah, the drone can go just, and often does, just goes back.
Right, okay.
Goes back to where it was.
But as part of this operation, though, between the guards and the prison service, in the last couple of months there's been some notable successes.
And I suppose to show you the level of...
There was a number of arrests made and a very expensive drone was seized along with a large amount of drugs.