CORRECTIVE SERVICES CUTS WILL PUT DUBBO COMMUNITY AT RISK

12 Corrective Services jobs are to be cut in Dubbo when the Community Compliance and Monitoring Group (CCMG) office closes as part of a State-wide restructure by Corrective Services NSW. According to the Western Plains Community Union Alliance the job cuts will mean
high-risk offenders will no longer be supervised and monitored after business hours and on weekends. The CCMG currently monitors extreme high-risk offenders on Parole Orders and Good Behaviour Bonds such as murderers, sex offenders, offenders with links to Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs (OMCG), offenders subject to electronic monitoring, offenders on Home Detention Orders as well as Intensive Corrections Orders.
Officers conduct unannounced home visits both during and after business hours (including weekends and public holidays), and urine drug tests and alcohol breath testing to ensure offenders comply with the conditions of their Orders.

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MEDIA RELEASE- Corrective services officers followed standard procedures in Thomson case

Friday 1 February 2013

Corrective services officers followed standard procedures in Thomson case

The Prison Officers Vocational Branch of the Public Service Association of NSW (PSA) take great exception to the disparaging remarks and comments made by the solicitor of Federal MP Mr Craig Thomson.
Anne Gardiner General Secretary of the PSA said: “The Officers involved in the search of Mr Thomson were at all times acting in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedures of Corrective Services NSW and the Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999. “Mr Thomson was placed into Corrective Services custody after he was bail refused by the police prior to being placed before the court. “It is a safety requirement that all new custodies are strip searched. Officers involved in the search acted in a professional and respectful manner at all times. “This type of name calling and vilification of people who are just doing their job is not on.”
Enquiries: Stewart Little 0418 610 792

Media Release -Craig Thomson