With increasing pressures on the Prison Services, it is vital that staff are properly equipped to thoroughly search all areas of buildings and cells. The concealment of drugs and weapons is a major problem and many prisoners are finding more sophisticated ways of smuggling and concealing items. Thorough visual searches are now more commonplace, but they need to be carried out quickly and with minimum disruption.

Remote Visual Inspection equipment provides the ideal solution, with highly portable kits designed to enable visual search of even the most difficult to reach areas.

The intensity of search will vary according to the intelligence information available and past experience. Most prisons will therefore need a variety of equipment, the most common kits being the IPLEX MX, a body mounted battery operated videoscope system, FRK-1 Fiberscope Kit and Infrared Telescopic CCTV System.