RE: THE ZAHID MUBAREK INQUIRY WITNESS STATEMENT OF ...

5. It was whilst I was on that wing that I took and passed the promotion exam. Thiswas a national examination run by the Prison Service consisting of both writtenpapers and an oral interview before the National Board. I was promoted to thegrade of Senior Officer and posted to HM Prison, WormwoodScrubs.6. I worked in Wormwood Scrubs for two years running the Remand Wing and then,in approximately 1993, returned to Feltham where I worked for five years first onthe Induction Wing (Lapwing) and then one year on prisoner discharge. I thenwent back to the Induction Wing for 18 months and then in January/February of2000 moved to the Reception Unit.7. In 2002 I transferred to Winchester where I worked on the Induction Wing and thesex offenders wing.I am currently night manager at the prison.Job description8. In February 2000 I took up the Senior Officer position on the Reception Unit atFeltham. I was the officer in charge. This was largely weekday work but I was ona roster working one weekend in three. The work of Reception was to receiveprisoners from the Courts and to discharge those prisoners whose sentence wascompleted. Some of the prisoners we received would be based at Feltham andwould pass through on their way back to .the cell they already occupied. Otherprisoners, who were there during the course of a trial or on transfer or some otherreason, would be passed from Reception to the Induction Unit where they wouldbe interviewed and allocated to a wing and a cell.9. My line manager and reporting officer at that time was Principal Officer PaulClark. He was my first link in the management chain, so far as I was concerned.As to my staff, on each shift there would normally be six prison officers (includingtwo from the security section) plus a nurse or hospital officer. For the eveningreception period a doctor was also present. Four of the prison officers werespecifically tasked with escorting prisoners either back to their wing or to theInduction Unit.2 -922-