Prisoners have become increasingly inventive in coming up with ways to get phones into jails. A tiny mobile phone made of plastic are now bestsellers among inmates as they can be smuggled into prisons and stored 'internally' without being detected by scanners. The LONG-CZ handset weighs just 18 grams, is 68mm high and 23mm wide, so is small enough to be smuggled in and stored by inmates. It is available online for just £25 and is made almost entirely made of plastic, so is not detectable by the machines used in Irish jails. The handset is marketed as the 'world's smallest phone' and has become the most popular mobile for prisoners.
In 2008, prison chiefs installed eight Body Orifice Security Scanners - nicknamed the BOSS - in a number of Irish jails. The handsets are even being advertised on Irish online buy-and-sell websites and second hand shops as 'Beat the Boss phones'. The high-tech x-ray scanners allow officers to detect internally-concealed drugs and phones without conducting body searches. But a prison source has claimed that inmates are snapping up the plastic mobile phones in a bid to fool the scanner. The source said: 'The phones are easy to smuggle in internally, particularly by prisoners on day release.
'The prisoners swallow the SIM card so it can't be picked up and retrieve it later.
They are totally made of plastic and are not always detected by the Boss.'
The Boss chair is designed to detect items like weapons, mobile phones and drugs concealed by inmates in body cavities. The chair includes a metal detector, which is fixed to the seat and scans the subject's body cavities in a non-intrusive manner.
It just shows that all forms of security are beatable to a large extent
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ReplyDeletekudos to their creativity though
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