Page 2394 - Week 06 - Thursday, 23 June 2011
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this place that I will not go into the details of specific security matters at the prison, for the obvious reasons.
MR SMYTH: A supplementary, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: Minister, do you categorically deny that the police SRS squad or any officers trained in riot squad duty have been called to the Alexander Maconochie Centre?
MR CORBELL: Officers of the SRS have attended the Alexander Maconochie Centre. That is a normal part of their training, their coordination and the delivery of services with Corrective Services and response to the Alexander Maconochie Centre as required in relation to any requests for assistance.
There is a standing protocol in place should Corrective Services staff require assistance from police in relation to public order matters. But there has been no riot at the AMC, contrary to the very thinly veiled suggestions being made by those opposite. There has been no disturbance that has required police to be engaged in relation to those matters—that is, to be deployed to deal with such an incident. But precautions are taken if intelligence suggests that there may be an incident arising. That is entirely responsible, but there have been no incidents of the type mentioned by those opposite.
MR SMYTH: A supplementary, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: Minister, apart from training, have the SRS or any other officers trained in riot squad duty responded to requests from the Alexander Maconochie Centre, particularly on 20 December 2010?
MR CORBELL: I will have to take advice about the specific date that Mr Smyth is referring to but it would not surprise me if police have been requested to attend as a precaution in relation to a range of matters at the AMC.
Mr Smyth: So there were responses?
MR CORBELL: I said I would take it on notice. That is a normal protocol between Corrective Services and our police, particularly if they believe there to be incidents of such a nature as to require police assistance.
I reiterate—I do not know how much more clearly I can say it—there has been no armed uprising at the AMC. There has been no riot at the AMC. There has been no disturbance of the nature suggested by those opposite. There have been instances, of course, where our intelligence-gathering capability identifies that this may be in the planning stages and appropriate steps are taken in those circumstances.
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