Recommendation 21: Officers trained to carry out fabric checks
From Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry (Volumes I and II), published 29 June 2006.
Recommendation
Senior officers should ensure that their staff know how to carry out fabric checks. They should ensure that officers realise that in order to check the walls of a cell, it will be necessary to look behind or under the furniture next to them. If that can only be done by moving the furniture, the furniture should be moved. If in the course of doing so they discover that the furniture is broken, they should check whether any parts of it could be used as a weapon.
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 7 March 2026). This is separate from the response above.