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Medication, alcohol and ‘horrendous’ assaults in detention centres depart ABF reeling

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The commissioner of the Australian Border Power is interesting to the federal government for elevated search powers to crack down on medicine and alcohol in immigration detention, the place he says dependancy is rife and violence is on the rise.

After “quite horrendous assaults” on Serco workers in detention centres, Michael Outram mentioned expanded search powers “would be of great assistance” to cut back the “high level of threat and risk” posed by detainees with entry to medicine and alcohol.

The commissioner made the feedback in a wide-ranging interview for Guardian’s Australian Politics podcast discussing ABF’s apology to its workers for failing to “prevent workplace misconduct from occurring” after two damning reviews discovered sexual discrimination and harassment had been rife within the ABF and its marine unit.

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The Australian Human Rights Fee known as for extra search powers in a report in April, however the residence affairs division referred that suggestion to the Albanese authorities.

Outram straight endorsed it: “If the detention population remains broadly as it is now, which is a lot of people who’ve been in prison and there is a lot of drug and alcohol addiction, then I think, yes, to manage the safety of detainees, visitors and workers of our detention facilities [it] is really important.”

He mentioned the prevalence of “home brew type arrangements” and the “quite horrendous assaults on Serco staff in the last few months” had been justification for higher powers to go looking. He mentioned the immigration minister, Andrew Giles, was “aware of this”.

Outram mentioned border power management would “certainly continue to advocate for more powers for our people to keep themselves and other detainees safe in our detention centres”, and to seek for medicine and alcohol.

A authorities spokesperson mentioned: “The government will always look for ways to improve workplace safety for staff working in these crucial roles.”

In Could, the federal price range injected $71.2m over two years into ABF’s “on-water response and aerial surveillance capabilities”, though $37m of that is to lease vessels whereas a few of the fleet is present process important upkeep.

In June the Age reported the ABF’s Cape class vessels had been beset with issues, together with a fireplace and communication techniques failure that crippled one because it patrolled the Kimberley shoreline on the similar time {that a} people-smuggling vessel landed in Western Australia.

Outram acknowledged the Cape class vessels had been “getting older” and that older vessels “need more maintenance” however denied there had been “significant gaps” in border surveillance because of this.

“We have never had more funding than we have now for our air and marine assets – that’s not the issue,” he mentioned.

“I think we’re working with defence right now on coming back to government to improve the way we plan and manage these capabilities.”

In February the opposition chief, Peter Dutton, claimed Labor had weakened Operation Sovereign Borders – which seeks to discourage and intercept asylum seeker boats en path to Australia – regardless of Outram confirming the ABF’s funding is now the best it has been because it was established in 2015.

Outram declined to elaborate on contradictory public statements from Giles about whether or not drones are used to surveil folks launched on immigration detention, saying solely that “when we use any surveillance methodologies and techniques, we comply with the law”.

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He mentioned the 160 folks launched because of the excessive courtroom’s ruling on indefinite detention face an “unprecedented” and “remarkable” degree of monitoring in contrast with the 15,000 Australians launched from jail each three months.

In April Guardian Australia revealed that two AHRC reviews into the tradition of the marine unit and the broader ABF discovered bullying and harassment “are normalised” in some sections of the workforce.

Outram mentioned the reviews had been commissioned because of “concerning” complaints made throughout exit interviews elevating inappropriate behaviour, regardless of “radio silence” from the ABF’s “formal reporting mechanisms” for bullying and harassment.

He was “really quite shocked” by the AHRC’s findings, notably with respect to the marine unit and a few “potentially unlawful” behaviours together with “unwanted touching” and “inappropriate text messaging”.

Some inappropriate behaviour, he mentioned, was the results of “unconscious bias” together with “unwanted … protective behaviours towards women”.

The ABF has accepted all the AHRC’s suggestions and apologised to workers, “particularly the women” affected by these behaviours, Outram mentioned.

“In terms of the victims of that behaviour, whilst they were brave enough to speak to the Human Rights Commission, and I’m so pleased they did – none have yet come forward and made formal complaints to the organisation.”

Outram mentioned the ABF should shift to recognise “that we have a positive duty, so it’s no longer good enough for a leader to be a passive bystander”.

“If you observe harmful behaviours, you are legally – I’d say ethically as well – legally obliged to take action to do something, to prevent that.”

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