Michael Spurr is the new Director General of NOMS

Michael Spurr is the new Director General of NOMS



Michael Spurr joined the Prison Service in 1983, after graduating from Durham University. He spent a year as a prison officer at HMP Leeds before starting his training as an assistant governor at HMP Stanford Hill. He then held posts at HMP Swaleside and served as Deputy Governor of HMYOI Aylesbury before becoming Governor of Aylesbury in 1993. Following this he took up a post managing prisoner population and the Control Review Committee, a system for managing disruptive prisoners, and in the wake of the Learmont Report in 1995, which examined the causes of a series of escapes from high security prisons, he led a review of the management disruptive prisoners that resulted in the creation of the Close Supervision Centre system. In 1996 he became Governor of HMP Wayland, a category C training prison, and subsequently he became Governor of HMP andYOI Norwich, a split site local prison. In 2000 he was promoted to Area Manager first for London North and East Anglia, then following the restructuring to align Areas with Government Regions for the Eastern Area. He became a Prison Service Management Board member in 2003 as Director of Operations, managing the area managers and responsible for all prisons other than the high security and in December 2006, he became Deputy Director General of HM Prison Service. Following the reorganisation of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) announced in January 2008, he took on his current role as Chief Operating Officer of NOMS, responsible for operational delivery across Prisons and Probation.