The minister said no one can carry a cell phone around the prison unless the dean forbids it. “If a police officer is found using a cell phone in a prison, the first thing to do is hang him up. "
New prison minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa (Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa) plans to reform the department, including installing 5G jammers, body scanners and more sniffer dogs outside the prison.
The minister has first hand experience of the threat of phone calls in prison. He received a congratulatory call from an inmate. At a press conference, he said on Tuesday: “The state's central prison will soon suffer from 5G interference. The proposal in this regard has been sent to the Federal Ministry of the Interior ".
“Now we only have signal jammer for 2G and 3G signals. If today we are going to spend a lot of money installing 4G jammers, it will be obsolete when 5G arrives. Therefore, we are trying to install 5G jammers, "Randhawa said prison department officials said after the meeting.
By the way, the government mentioned the 4G wifi jammer installation in the official press release that night. “Our prison department has three sniffer dogs. We plan to add seven more to verify drug and cell phone use in the prison complex. "
Only supporters can carry their phones in prison
The minister added that no one is allowed to carry a cell phone in the prison unless the dean forbids it. Randhawa said, “If a person is found using a cell phone in a prison, the first thing we need to do is hang them up. He added that as of 2017, more than 1,500 cell phones were recovered from the prison.
“To put an end to this situation, the new chief secretary will ask the district police chief to investigate the mobile recovery case. Anyone involved in the prison will be severely punished. And the pace of installing phone jammers will be stepped up as soon as possible.
The minister also said 651 inmates were HIV positive, and the minister said the department will improve sanitation facilities in the prison. “We are also planning to introduce health insurance for prisoners. I will also demand that permanent substitute doctors go to jail. The health department only sent doctors for six months to represent them.