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43% Surge, 1712 incidents! Drones are tearing apart prison security defenses. 43% Surge, 1712 incidents! Drones are tearing apart prison security defenses. TimeVary Communications, August 5, 2025, 11:24, Hunan. In recent years, drones have become a major security concern for prisons in the UK. Organized criminal groups are using them to smuggle contraband into prisons, triggering a series of chain reactions. According to the latest data, from April 2024 to March 2025, there were 1712 drone-related incidents in prisons across England and Wales, a 43% year-on-year increase. In typical cases, a drone dropped a large package inside the walls of Wandsworth prison during the early hours, and among confiscated drones involved in incidents were high-performance devices worth £6,000, with 40-minute endurance and the ability to carry four separate loads. Their ‘low-altitude penetration’ characteristics make traditional security measures difficult to intercept effectively, gradually becoming the
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