Tuesday, 15 October 2019

 Ms MAXWELL (Northern Victoria) (13:05): My constituency question is to the Minister for Corrections. It follows events at the Dhurringile Prison in late August, when authorities were apparently unaware that a prisoner had escaped until a member of the local community phoned them—a local community, I might add, that is increasingly frustrated at what they see as a contrast between inadequate security inside the prison and the over-vigilance of guards outside the facility in monitoring the movements of private citizens on nearby roads. In that context, I ask the minister if and when the government will seek to implement less intrusive and aggressive means of monitoring movements of private citizens around the jail, including potentially by issuing the guards with the numberplate details of local residents so that they are not continually hassled and treated with suspicion when driving in and out of the area.