USE OF DETECTION SENSORS IS IN OPERATIONAL AND SERVICE ACTIVITY OF PENITENTIARY FACILITIES

Abstract

Protection of penitentiary and detention facilities is complex measures to ensure the established procedure and penal isolation of prisoners and pre-prisoners, prevention of escapes and other crimes, prevention the entry into protected territory by unauthorized persons and items prohibited for storage and use in penal facilities, storing valuables of penal facilities. Tasks protection achieved by using a specially created system of protection, which is grouping capabilities penal facility.

Prevent the occurrence of convicts escapes from custody are not only equipped to chat posts, but also the technical means of protection and detection, against escape fences, television and surveillance equipment that are established along the entire perimeter of each correctional institution.

Engineering and technical means of protection are designed to enhance protection of reliability, isolation of prisoners and supervision, as well as engineering support other tasks to perform departments of penal institutions: supervision and security; protection; engineering and technical means of protection and telecommunications.

One of the effective ways of improving protection of objects is to use engineering and technical means of protection. The introduction of new, more sophisticated technical means of protection, improvement of forms and methods of their service and their operation is one of the main objectives of their application. To date, no means of protection, which is used in the State Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine can not be considered completely effective.

To date, the effective version of this method of protection is the use of technical means of detection, the principle of which is based on optical effects in an enclosed space (eg, optical fiber). The use of modern, hidden from detection and recognition, will improve the efficiency and reliability protection of perimeter and object, complete system of protection of facility, bring the organization of penal institutions, detention centers to a new level.

The article examines the questions of use of sensors in operational and service activity of penitentiary facilities of State penitentiary service of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.  Fiber optic and seismic sensors which are applied for the purpose of protection of object are analyzed. Prospects of development of new detection sensors and their uses in system of protection of penitentiary facilities are outlined. The samples of detection sensors: fiber optic and seismic are offered to introduce in complex application of technical means of protection of facilities and centers of the State penitentiary service of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine belonging to the sphere are selected.