Video clips used to support Prison officers claims for early retirement

Prison Officers have resorted to the use of video evidence to highlight the injuries they sustain from aggresive and violent inmates. The intention being to use the recordings to support their claims that they should not be expected to work beyond 60 years of age.

Like Firefighters and the Police, the Prison Officers Association (POA) consider themselves to be a "front line service" and as such should not be expected to work to the proposed 68 year mark currently being proposed by the Government.

Members of the POA organised a march through Westminster today which was aimed at highlighting the injuries on the video. In one clip a Prison Officer was shown with a slashed cheek where he had been assualted by an inmate who'd concealed a razor blade in his toothbrush.

Two further assaults, an attack with a chair leg and a stabbing, led to the Prison Officers retiring from the profession on medical grounds.

Speaking publicly the POA Chairman, Mark Fairhurst, said, " We deal with violence and emergencies daily. We cannot be expected to either physically or mentally continue working in this environment into our sixties".

It is not currently known whether the Government will amend the current proposals in line with the hopes of the Prison Officers Association.

Nottingham Crime Solicitors