Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship is responsible for jurisdictional responses and investi­gations within and the management of immigration detention centres, IDCs, and alternative places of detention, APODs. Serco has responsibility for responding to instances within the IDCs. I just want to ensure that the facts are on the table about the circumstances. This includes trained negotiators and extraction teams. If Serco is unable to maintain good order at an IDC, Serco then may request police assistance, which is then assessed in accordance with the circumstances. Within an IDC, those are the processes and procedures that are adopted. The opposition are seeking to compare and contrast it with another incident outside an IDC, but I think it is sensible to say that these are the circumstances of how and when responses are undertaken. So it is Serco within the IDC and then, if it is a matter that requires AFP— (Time expired)