NIPS Annual Report and Accounts 2012-13 - Department of Justice

2012-2013
Summary Of Other Protected Personal Data Related Incidents In 2012-13
Incidents deemed by the Data Controller not to fall within the criteria for report to the Information
Commissioner’s Office but recorded centrally within the Department are set out in the table below.
Small, localised incidents are not recorded centrally and are not cited in these figures.
Category Nature of Incident Total
I Loss of inadequately protected electronic equipment, devices 0
or paper documents from secured Government premises
II Loss of inadequately protected electronic equipment, devices 0
or paper documents from outside secured Government premises
III Insecure disposal of inadequately protected electronic 1
equipment, devices or paper documents
IV Unauthorised disclosure 0
V Other - document misfiled on the internal IT system, 0
minor incident only
Regulatory Risk
During 2012 -13 NIPS was responsible for the general regulation and control of prisons in Northern Ireland,
under the delegated authority of the Minister of Justice as prescribed in the Northern Ireland Act 1998
(Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010.
The Service operates within a regulatory framework of statutory and non-statutory measures. The statutory
or legislative element of this framework is principally served by The Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 and
the Prison and Young Offenders Centres Rules (NI) 1995, as amended. The non-statutory element of this
framework is the development and provision of specific strategies and policies relating to the management
of all individuals in our care. In accordance with the general legislative arrangements in Northern Ireland, the
Service’s policies are, where necessary, developed through an open, consultative and inclusive process, allied
to an integrated system of impact assessment and appraisal tools which are used to determine the response
needed to each of the issues identified.
The management of specific regulatory risk within the Service’s operating framework rests with PSMB.
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