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Operation Safeguard
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.Metropolitan Police Authority, Operation Safeguard, 3 Mar 2006, (accessed 10 Oct 2006) 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.
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