Despite being beardown capable to disrupt the signals required for the drones to fly, the forcefield doesn't interfere with Wifi for radical nearby.

21:34, Sun, Jan 19, 2025 | UPDATED: 21:35, Sun, Jan 19, 2025

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'Drug drones' could beryllium stopped by physics forcefields. (Image: Getty)

The Home Office could utilise physics forcefields to forestall "drug drones" from entering UK prisons.

The strategy is already successful usage astatine Guernsey's Les Nicolles Prison and has detected immoderate drone flown wrong 50 metres, preventing drugs, phones, and different contraband entering the premises.

The forcefield blocks the signals that link the relation and the drone, disabling it and causing it to either autumn retired of the entity oregon alert backmost to the operator. So far, the situation has had a 100% occurrence rate.

John De Carteret, politician astatine Les Nicolles Prison, has been successful talks with the Home Office, who person a squad "working on" making the strategy much mainstream.

He told The Telegraph: "Whatever they do, they request to bash thing quickly. You person to find a exertion solution to a exertion problem.

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The forcefield makes the drone autumn retired of the entity oregon alert backmost to the operator. (Image: Getty)

"My idiosyncratic presumption is that it’s not precise agelong earlier a firearm is taken into a situation which volition alteration a immense incidental involving concerted indiscipline oregon an flight attempt."

"Telling radical and publicising what we person got has been a bigger mitigating factor than thing else."

Ministry of Justice (MoJ) sources told The Telegraph the Home Office gathering with Mr De Carteret was portion of a wider appraisal of anti-drone exertion and the ministry was not "actively" considering forcefields.

They declined to disclose circumstantial plans to debar "playing into the hands of superior organised criminals".

Despite being beardown capable to disrupt the signals required for the drones to fly, the Drone Defence forcefield doesn't interfere with wifi for radical nearby.

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Les Nicolles Prison has been capable to instrumentality the forcefield by changing the UK's Wireless Telegraphy Act to adhd drones to a clause that already allows prisons to jam mobile phones.

The relation of the drone is legally liable for immoderate injuries caused by the malfunctioning equipment.

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has called for "all imaginable options" to beryllium considered erstwhile it comes to preventing drones entering prisons.

He said: "Proven exertion that disables drones indispensable beryllium fast-tracked arsenic a substance of urgency. As the main inspector said, the proliferation of drones circumventing situation defences is present a menace to nationalist security."

But a Government spokesperson told the outlet: "We’ve enforced restricted alert zones astir prisons, invested successful countermeasures and are collaborating with the constabulary to deter, observe and disrupt the increasing amerciable usage of drones astir prisons."