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Op Cap

 

Operational capacity of a prison.

PAMS

 

Prisoner Activity Management System

PAF

 

Postcode Address File

OMiC Go

 

A digital solution providing basic prisoner information, auto allocation of prisoners to KW’s

OGRS

 

Offender Group Reconviction Scale

OFFLOC

 

Offender Location report

NPD

 

Non Parole Date

NOMS Number

 

National Offender Management Service Number

NOMIS

 

National Offender Management Information System

Nominals

 

In Police parlance a ‘nominal’ is someone recently arrested. In prisons it is a prisoner suspected (and often under surveillance) of carrying out criminal activity within the prison, such as drug dealing.