The Police Commissioner's son Russell Joseph O'Callaghan leaves the Perth Magistrates Court.  Picture: Kerris Berrington

The Police Commissioner's son Russell Joseph O'Callaghan leaves the Perth Magistrates Court.  Picture: Kerris Berrington

 

Karl O'Callaghan says his son Russell has made positive steps, despite new charges against him. 

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/karl-ocallaghan-speaks-about-sons-lapse-following-day-in-court-20140814-103yn9.html

AUGUST 14 2014

Karl O’Callaghan speaks about son's 'lapse' following day in court

 

Nicole Cox

WA’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan says he sympathises with families trying to support their drug-addicted children and believes his eldest son has made positive steps towards rehabilitation.

Speaking for the first time since his son Russell was charged over a domestic incident in which he allegedly made threats to kill and held his former partner against her will, Mr O’Callaghan said the road to recovery for drug abusers was long, arduous and often traumatic for families.

Question to be asked of WA’s Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O’Callaghan.

If he “..sympathises with families trying to support their drug-addicted children …and that

the road to recovery for drug abusers was long, arduous and often traumatic for families .. and this led to his own son Russell Joseph O’Callahan allegedly made threats to kill and held his former partner against her will…”

then why does WA’s Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O’Callaghan and previous Western Australian Police Commissioners allow Western Australian Police to be involved with criminal organisations and networks with the growing, manufacturing, importation, supply and distribution of illegal drugs  and many other serious criminal offences including rape. Armed robberies, abductions and murder … and are not interested in receiving and  taking any serious notice of information that will help solve serious crimes …. One of the reasons is that such information will lead to Western Australian Police being involved in association with involved with criminal organisations and networks with the growing, manufacturing, importation, supply and distribution of illegal drugs and many other serious criminal offences including rape. Armed robberies, abductions and murder .. and that on many occasions WA’s Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O’Callaghan and previous Western Australian Police Commissioners have allowed to be appointed in charge of certain investigations police that are involved in the crimes that they are responsible to investigate .. and/or are placed in charge of such criminal investigations for the purpose of making sure the real people involved and/or responsible for such crimes are protected because other police and/or their families and/or criminals and criminal organisations and networks that certain police are working with or for or in association with … are involved in the organising and/or committed such crimes …

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/top-cops-son-hurt-in-drug-blast/news-story/9553ca9f4e32aacec09113353ceb68c5

Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's son pleads guilty to assault on woman

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Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's son pleads guilty to assault on woman

OCTOBER 29 2015


 

The son of the West Australian police commissioner has pleaded guilty to three violent charges committed against a woman, while three other offences have been dropped.

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan appeared in the West Australian District Court on Thursday via video link from Casuarina Prison.

THE son of WA Police Conmissioner Karl O’Callaghan has faced court on charges he threatened to kill his partner, while their five-year-old son was in the house.

Russell O’Callaghan, 33, appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court on seven charges, including threatening to kill and deprivation of liberty.

The police prosecutor told the court Mr O’Callaghan is alleged to have held his partner captive in her Langford home for two and a half days, beginning on Sunday afternoon.

During that time he is alleged to have put metal scissors to her neck and threatened to kill her, grabbed her in a headlock and dragged her down the hallway, strangled her and punched her to the face and body.

It is alleged Mr O’Callaghan went to the woman’s house to stay on Friday night.

The couple got into an argument on Sunday and Mr O’Callaghan took the keys to the house, saying: “You’re not going anywhere, bitch. I’m not going anywhere.”

The court heard the doors to the house are always locked to prevent the couple’s autistic child from leaving.

At one stage Mr O’Callaghan is alleged to have pinned the woman to the floor.

When he allegedly held the scissors to the woman’s neck, he is alleged to have said: “I’m going to stab your f..king throat, bitch. I’m going to kill you. This is the end of your life, I am going to kill you.”

Police said Mr O’Callaghan left the house yesterday morning, and the woman ran to a neighbours and called police. Mr O’Callaghan was arrested yesterday afternoon.

In total, he has been charged with two counts of common assault, unlawful assault occasioning bodily harm in circumstances of aggravation, threatening to kill, depriving a person of their liberty and making a threat with an intent to hinder or prevent someone doing an act.

The police prosecutor opposed bail.

                  Russell Joseph O'Callaghan pleads guilty to assault on a woman. 

             Russell Joseph O'Callaghan pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, indecent assault and threatening to kill the woman.

The   court heard Russell Joseph O'Callaghan had removed the woman's underwear and threatened to rape her.

           Charges of threatening with intent to influence and deprivation of liberty were dropped, while a charge of sexual penetration without consent had been committed to the District Court, but n                ever indicted.

                  Russell Joseph O'Callaghan will face a sentencing hearing on January 5, 2016 - AAP 

               Russell O’Callagnhan, the son of Western Australia’s police commissioner Karl O' Callaghan's was hurt in a chrystal meth drug blast in Perth, Western Australia.

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan comforts his son Russell during his stay in hospital after suffering injuries in a drug lab blast. Photo: Channel Ten.

A son of Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has been charged with a string of serious offences including deprivation of liberty and making threats to kill against his former partner.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, 33, appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court on Wednesday accused of seven charges, including unlawful assault occasioning bodily harm, making threats with intent and common assault with aggravation.

It will be alleged that O’Callaghan held his former partner against her will at her home between August 10 and 12.

He applied for bail but a decision on the application will be heard later on Wednesday.

The latest charges come after Russell O’Callaghan served eight months in jail for attempting to manufacture methamphetamines in 2011.

O’Callaghan suffered serious burns to his head, shoulders and arms when a clandestine drug laboratory exploded in the laundry of the Homeswest house in Carlisle in March 2011.

Four other people sustained burns in the explosion. Two children, aged three and four, escaped injury.

In September 2011, O’Callaghan was jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to attempting to manufacture a prohibited drug, methamphetamine but served eight

months before being granted parole

Two other men were also charged with similar offences.

At the time, O’Callaghan’s defence lawyer Mark Andrews said his client’s role in the drug manufacture on that day had been “peripheral” and he had never been involved in cooking amphetamines before.

He said O’Callaghan had agreed to supply one packet of cold and flu tablets in return for 0.1g of methamphetamine, which has an approximate value of $100.

Comment has been sought from WA Police.

A spokeswoman for the Police Commissioner said he would not make public comment on the matter at this stage.

Perth police at the Carlisle state housing unit yesterday following the explosion of an alleged drug lab, in which the police commissioner's son was hurt. Picture: Richard Polden

NICOLAS PERPITCH - The Australian - March 22, 2011

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Perth police at the Carlisle state housing unit yesterday following the explosion of an alleged drug lab, in which the police commissioner's son was hurt. Picture: Richard Polden

A police commissioner Karl O' Callaghan's son hurt in drug blast

Perth police at the Carlisle state housing unit yesterday following the explosion of an alleged drug lab, in which the police commissioner's son was hurt. Picture: Richard Polden

In September 2011 he was sentenced to 16 months' jail for his involvement in a clandestine drug laboratory which exploded and left him with burns.

Russell O'Callaghan pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to manufacture methylamphetamine by assisting three other men to obtain the necessary drugs and equipment.

Russell O'Callaghan served half of the 16-month term before he was released.

WEST Australian police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan's 29-year-old son Ruseel O’Callaghan, has been badly burned in an illegal drug lab explosion in Perth.

Torn between his roles as police commissioner and a dad, Mr O'Callaghan has told of his struggle to be good at both after revealing the incident. "There's always that conflict between being the commissioner of police and being the father," an emotional Mr O'Callaghan told The Australian last night after visiting his son, Russell, in Royal Perth Hospital.

The younger O'Callaghan was one of five people hurt in the powerful blast, which tore a hole through the roof of a Carlisle state housing unit. One man was in critical condition. Two toddlers escaped unhurt.

"I was quite shocked by the sight of him," Mr O'Callaghan said. "He's got serious burns to his head, neck, shoulders arms and torso. So he's pretty much bandaged right up to his head."

But he said his son was lucid and the first thing he asked was how were the two children who were nearby. "He described the explosion as a fireball that just engulfed all of them. He has been really shaken by this. He said he came within a hair's breadth of losing his life and he's exactly right.

"You can talk about clan labs all you like as a police officer. But when you get to talk to someone whose been involved in something like that and that person's very close to you, then it really drives home what the issue is."

Mr O'Callaghan reassured his estranged son, who has previously been treated for drug addiction, that he would not abandon him, saying the most important thing was that he got "well both mentally and physically".

Mr O'Callaghan said 30 illegal drug labs had been broken up in the state this year and 130 last year. Most of the backyard operations appeared to be making methamphetamines.

Coincidentally, the daughter of former police superintendent Dave Parkinson was living in the unit next door to the clandestine drug-making operation, with both of them complaining more than 40 times to the Department of Housing and police about the noise, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, insults and even alleged physical attacks on both of them.

Mr Parkinson claims the tenant had once told his daughter, Stacee, they had a .22 rifle and were going to shoot her father for standing up to them.

But, despite the department's "three strikes " policy against anti-social behaviour, the tenants were never evicted. Ms Parkinson said she lived in continual fear of her neighbours around the illegal drug lab.

"It's been absolutely hell," she said. "It's been absolutely devastating, horrible. I have a look around to see if there's anyone there before I step foot into my home. That's how bad it is."

Housing Minister Troy Buswell was furious nothing had been done despite the complaints and ordered an immediate review of the three strikes policy. "The department, and by extension, the government have not done enough to protect Stacee and her fellow neighbours," he said.

Mr O'Callaghan has appointed a senior police officer to head the inquiry into the drug laboratory. He said it was unclear what role his son had played, although he did not live at the home. "He will have to face the consequences. But as a family we are suffering deeply at the moment."

Russell O'Callaghan assaulted and threatened to kill a woman last year

The court heard he removed her underwear and threatened to rape her

He had also served jail time for attempting to manufacture drugs at home 

By Nicole Low For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press

PUBLISHED: 13:02, 29 October 2015

The son of West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting a woman and threatening to kill her.

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan appeared in the West Australian District Court on Thursday via video link from Casuarina Prison.

He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, indecent assault and threatening to kill the woman in August last year.

Russell O'Callaghan has pleaded guilty of indecent assault and threatening to kill a woman

O'Callaghan had threatened to rape a woman in August last year (stock image)

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan appeared in the West Australian District Court on Thursday via video link from Casuarina Prison.

He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, indecent assault and threatening to kill the woman in August last year.

The court heard O'Callaghan had removed her underwear and threatened to rape her.

Charges of threatening with intent to influence and deprivation of liberty were dropped, while a charge of sexual penetration without consent had been committed to the District Court, but never indicted.

O'Callaghan had been granted home detention bail, but following claims he had breached his bail by contacting the victim, he was taken back into custody the ABC reported.

It was not his first brush with the law.

In September 2011, O'Callaghan was found guilty of being involved in a drug laboratory and was sentenced to 16 months jail.

The home drug lab exploded and left him with burns.

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan will face a sentencing hearing on January 5, 2016

O'Callaghan is the son of West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan will face a sentencing hearing on January 5, 2016

Dr. Karl Joseph O'Callaghan (born 1956 in England) is an Australian police officer serving since 2004 as the Commissioner of the Western Australia Police.

Karl Joseph O'Callaghan was born in 1956 in England. In 1970 he moved with his family to Australia where he attended Kalamunda Senior High School. After completing year 12 he joined the Western Australia Police Service as a Police Cadet in 1973 and in November 1975 was inducted into the Western Australia Police Academy. In January 1976 he graduated as Dux of his Academy class. O’Callaghan’s policing career has encompassed Police Communications, Port Hedland Police Station, Accident Inquiry Section, Perth Traffic Branch, Manjimup Traffic and General Duties, Community Education, and the Police Academy.

Dr. Karl Joseph O'Callaghanwas promoted from Senior Sergeant to Superintendent in 1996 and was transferred to the Internal Investigations Unit and later ran both the Wheatbelt (formerly Northam) and South East Metropolitan (formerly Cannington) policing districts.

Dr. Karl Joseph O'Callaghan later attended Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia and completed a Bachelor of Education with 1st Class Honours and in 1998 he became the first police officer in the history of the Western Australia Police to complete a PhD.

In 2001 he was promoted to Assistant Commissioner, Strategic and Corporate Development (formerly Policy, Planning & Evaluation) assuming responsibility for major change, reform and information technology projects in the Western Australia Police. He later relieved in the positions of Executive Director (Corporate Services) and Deputy Commissioner (Reform). This role included responsibility for the Strategic Plan and Annual Business Planning process, legislative reform, major IT-based business re-engineering projects, replacing the Radio Communications infrastructure (PMRN) together with management of Corporate Projects and major Corporate Reform and implementation of Royal Commission recommendations.

In 1997 O'Callaghan was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study ethics training and education in policing. In 2004 he was awarded the Australian Police Medal (APM). In 2006 he was made a Rotary International Paul Harris fellow for his work with communities in Western Australia. In 2011 he established Bright Blue (The Commissioner's Charity for Sick Kids) and became the inaugural chair.

In 1973, after finishing year 12, Dr. Karl Joseph O'Callaghanjoined the Western Australia Police as a cadet. A year later he joined the WA Police Academy where he graduated as dux of his class in 1976

Dr. Karl Joseph O'Callaghan was promoted to the position of Western Australian Commissioner in 2004.

Top cop puts hand up as foster dad

Gabrielle Knowles - Friday, 27 May 2016

Karl and Christine O'Callaghan with their three foster children.

https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/top-cop-puts-hand-up-as-foster-dad-ng-ya-108246

Karl Joseph O'Callaghan was born in 1956 in England. In 1970 he moved with his family to Australia where he attended Kalamunda Senior High School

Dr. Karl Joseph O'Callaghan

“Will you be there to pick us up tonight? You won’t be late will you?”

They are simple questions Karl O’Callaghan and his wife Christine are asked almost daily by their young foster children, giving a heartbreaking insight into the home life the brothers once had

Providing the stability the children crave is one of the many reasons the Police Commissioner and his wife became WA foster carers.

“Security and routine can make an enormous difference,” Mr O’Callaghan said, speaking for the first time about his foster children.

“In many cases we can save these kids by providing them with a place to be and some routine. It’s not more complicated than that.”

Mr O’Callaghan has been outspoken in his calls for more children to be taken away from homes where they are abused or neglected and often witness drug and alcohol use or violence.

“It’s one thing to say that these kids need a place to go and it’s another thing to provide it,” he said.

While acknowledging it could be a “big ask” for people to take young strangers into their homes and deal with often serious psychological problems, he hoped more would do it because the rewards were worth it.

“It does give you a feeling that you’re doing some real good for these kids,” he said.

“You are providing a barrier against those terrible things that could happen to them and giving them, not only a chance to thrive, but to eventually become properly functioning members of the community.”

More than 4600 WA children and youths are in out-of-home care, according to the Department for Child Protection and Family Support. While relatives look after more than half of those, the rest are taken into the homes of foster carers.

DCP director-general Emma White said there were about 850 family carer households and 823 departmental foster carer households in WA, with other community organisations also providing placements.

She said the department was always looking for more people to “open their hearts and homes” to children who could not live safely with their families.

“Every child deserves a permanent, safe, stable and nurturing home and for children in care this needs to occur at the earliest opportunity to help them overcome the trauma they have suffered,” she said. “The greatest reward for carers is seeing a once traumatised child grow up to lead a full, happy and productive life.”

Like all foster carers, Mr O’Callaghan and his wife — a special needs school teacher — had extensive training and assessment before being accepted. It included questions about their parenting styles and interviews with their four adult children — including son Russell in Casuarina prison.

In his 40-plus years as a police officer, Mr O’Callaghan has seen most things but he admits some stories told during foster training about children shocked even him.

In November, the O’Callaghans started caring for a 15-year-old African refugee who slept in a park and roamed with other youths.

He now goes to school every day and gets dropped off and picked up from approved evening outings.

The brothers, aged seven and nine, joined the family a few months ago and the couple also provide regular “respite” care for a fourth young boy.

 

With the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan facing bad publicity and allegations of his son Russell Joseph O'Callaghan being involved in a criminal organisation which involves career criminal Donald Victor Morey aka Donald Victor Matusevuch that manufactures, sells and supplies illegal drugs, abducts, rapes and murders people for snuff movies, body parts and satanic rituals,and also for pleasure and self sexual gratification, the will paid publicity consultants recommended that  the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan adopt three foster children ..... no one in the Western Australian community would be at all critical of  the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan adopting three foster children ... however the timing of doing so seems clearly be a massive publicity stunt. Also one would wonder about the ability

 of  the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan to correctly bring up his new three adopted foster children, when is biological son Russell Joseph O' Callaghan is involved with serious criminal gangland gangsters  that manufactures, sells and supplies illegal drugs, abducts, rapes and murders people for snuff movies, body parts and satanic rituals,and also for pleasure and self sexual gratification .... maybe it is time for  the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan so retire form being a policeman and move to a quiet rural community and/or a tropical island and spend some quality time with his biological son, Russell Joseph O' Callaghan, his new three adopted children and his wife Christine and spend each day teaching to have decent values and desires to that they all can become decent and valuable embers of the community.....

One thing is for certain on the clear evidence, is that  the Western Australian Police Commissioner Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan has a socking and deplorable record in his roll 

as the Western Australian Police Commissioner, who has been in the job for around 12 years, which is longer than any other Western Australian Police Commissioner.

What is rather strange and bizzare, is that the Western Australian Liberal Minister of Police Liza Harvey, The Western Australian Liberal Premier Colin Barnett, and the Western Australian Liberal Attorney General, Michael Minschin reappointed  Dr Karl Joseph O'Callaghan as the Western Australian  Police Commissioner for another four years after realising that his son Russell Joseph O' Callaghan was committing serious criminal offenses and involved with 

serious criminal gangland gangsters  that manufactures, sells and supplies illegal drugs, abducts, rapes and murders people for snuff movies, body parts and satanic rituals,and also for pleasure and self sexual gratification .

WA Police Commissioner calls on WA parents to keep closer eye on children after out-of-control parties

By David Weber 4 Apr 2016

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/police-commissioner-calls-parents-watch-children-after-parties/7298148

WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has renewed his call for parents to make sure they know where their children are at night, following two "out-of-control" parties in Rockingham and South Lake on Saturday night.

Police said more than 200 people attended each event and several people were arrested and charged after the South Lake party.

Mr O'Callaghan said there were three types of parents in these situations.

"There are parents who, when we take kids home to them, will be concerned and may not have known that their child was out or may have thought they were somewhere else and they'll respond and do something about it," he said.

"There are parents who know that their children are out somewhere and they don't care too much about it and then there are a group of parents who are simply not capable of looking after their children properly and so those kids are out on the street all the time and I guess a number of these would fall into this category."

Party organisers could be held responsible

Twenty-four police units attended the Rockingham party while eight units were sent to South Lake.

If charges are brought against those who held or organised the parties, they may be fined or potentially made to pay for the cost of the police operations.

The Rockingham party was held in a vacant building and had been advertised on Facebook.

Seven move-on notices were issued, and police transported seven children from the scene to their homes or a place deemed safe under law.

Mr O'Callaghan said child protection authorities had been asked to follow up with the parents this week.

"They would've been children that we had a particular concern about in that they were out there," he said.

"They were unsupervised and they were also in moral and physical danger, being exposed to older kids, and of course alcohol and drugs."

Parents need to 'get real'

The commissioner was particularly scathing of parents who drove their kids to the Rockingham party.

"I mean, you've got to get real, if you're going to drop your kids off at a party where you don't know who's running it, you don't know what's going to be there, you don't know what controls are in place, you are simply asking for trouble," he said.

"You're putting children aged between 12 and 16 into an environment where they're at high risk."

No charges have been laid over the Rockingham event, but police are still investigating.

Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, were charged after the South Lake party, which was held at a home.

The boy and an 18-year-old woman have been charged with assaulting a public officer after rocks and bottles were thrown at police.

Police removed four children from the scene.

Commissioner says more children need to be in state care

Commissioner O'Callaghan said police believed more kids in WA should be in state care.

"We all know there's about 2,500 kids in state care in Western Australia, most people will tell you there probably should be more like 4,000 in care so there's another 2,000 who are at high risk who could be moved out into care if it was possible," he said.

"So a fair number of these kids are the kids that we see on the street night after night, in physical and moral danger."

Commissioner O'Callaghan said matters were often complicated by family violence and alcohol and drug abuse.

"Sometimes those kids will come out of home because they feel unsafe in the home and the parents are in such crisis, they're not capable of providing support," he said.

"The problem with leaving kids in high-risk situations is they will grow up to have a whole series of problems themselves and what we'll see is another generational issue coming through so their families are likely to be in crisis as well.

"We're not talking about all the kids in Western Australia, we're talking about 4,000 out of many hundreds of thousands."

Topics: police, family-and-children, wa

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Karl O'Callaghan's son Russell O'Callaghan seeks release after breaching bail conditions

JOANNA MENAGHTUE DEC 09  2014

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PHOTO :Russell O'Callaghan, son of Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan, is seeking to be released on bail.

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The son of the WA Police Commissioner will be seeking release from custody pending the outcome of charges relating to a breach of his bail conditions, the Perth Magistrates Court has been told.

Russell O'Callaghan is alleged to have sent messages on social media to a woman he was banned from contacting as part of his bail conditions on other serious charges.

O'Callaghan appeared in court this morning via video link from Casuarina Prison.

His lawyer Sandra De Maio said she had just assumed control of the case from O'Callaghan's previous lawyer, and she needed an adjournment so she could provide prosecutors with the details of her client's bail application.

Ms De Maio said O'Callaghan would be seeking home detention bail and was hoping to take up a spot in a drug rehabilitation facility.

O'Callaghan was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in a fortnight.

Karl O'Callaghan's son seeks release after breaching bail conditions

By Joanna Menagh 9 Dec 2014, 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-09/russell-ocallahagn-seeks-release-after-bail-breach/5954832

PHOTO: Russell O'Callaghan, son of Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan, is seeking to be released on bail.

Russell O’Callaghan, who is the son of the Western Australian Police Commissioner, Kark O’Callaghan will be seeking release from custody pending the outcome of charges relating to a breach of his bail conditions, the Perth Magistrates Court has been told.

Russell O'Callaghan is alleged to have sent messages on social media to a woman he was banned from contacting as part of his bail conditions on other serious charges.

O'Callaghan appeared in court this morning via video link from Casuarina Prison.

His lawyer Sandra De Maio said she had just assumed control of the case from O'Callaghan's previous lawyer, and she needed an adjournment so she could provide prosecutors with the details of her client's bail application.

Ms De Maio said O'Callaghan would be seeking home detention bail and was hoping to take up a spot in a drug rehabilitation facility.

O'Callaghan was remanded in custody until his next court appearance in a fortnight.

Topics: law-crime-and-justice, wa

WA Police Commissioner's son Russell O'Callaghan pleads guilty to assault, threats to kill

Oct 2015

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-29/police-commissioner-son-ocallaghan-guilty-of-kill-threats/6896216

Russell O'Callaghan the son of the Western Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting and threatening to kill his partner.

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan had been due to stand trial before a jury next week but today appeared in the District Court and pleaded guilty to three charges.

The offences date back to August last year and involve his then partner, who is the mother of his child.

Two other charges, of unlawful detention and making a threat to prevent his partner calling police, were withdrawn.

No details were read to the court and O'Callaghan, who appeared via video link from Casuarina prison, was remanded in custody until a hearing in January.

O'Callaghan was initially granted home detention bail, but was taken back into custody two months later over allegations he breached his bail by trying to contact the victim.

The breach of bail charges will be dealt with in the Magistrates Court at a later date.

It is not the first time O'Callaghan has been behind bars.

In September 2011 he was sentenced to 16 months' jail for his involvement in a clandestine drug laboratory which exploded and left him with burns.

O'Callaghan pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to manufacture methylamphetamine by assisting three other men to obtain the necessary drugs and equipment.

He served half of the 16-month term before he was released.

At his sentencing hearing, the court was told O'Callaghan had been addicted to amphetamines for a number of years, but he had been receiving treatment at a drug rehabilitation facility.

Topics: assault, courts-and-trials, perth-6000

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Police commissioner's SON pleads guilty to assaulting a woman and threatening to kill her

WA Police Commissioner’s son Russell O’Callaghan faced Fremantle Magistrates Court on a string of serious assault charges and threats to kill his former partner.

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WA Police Commissioner’s son Russell O’Callaghan faced Fremantle Magistrates Court on a string of serious assault charges and threats to kill his former partner.

August 14, 2014CategoriesAustralian Crimes, CrimesTagsassualt, Australian Crimes, Crimes, Karl O'Callaghan, Public Prosecution Service, Remand (detention), Restraining Order, Russell O'Callaghan, Sex and the law, threat to kill, WA Police Conmissioner

Well wont this be interesting, THE son of WA Police Commissioner in the shit after to cover-up fiasco over treasurer Buswell’s pissed crash scandal. This kid nearly blew himself up in a drug lab a while ago!

Update 18/11/2014 Look who is back in the courts and jail

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan remanded in custody over alleged bail breaches

Tue 18 Nov 2014, 2:00pm

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan has been remanded in custody.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has been remanded in custody after appearing in court on a string of charges including breaching bail.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghanwas taken back into custody last month over allegations he breached the conditions of bail that had been set for him in August when he was charged with assaulting a woman and holding her against her will for two days.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghanmade a brief appearance in the Perth Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning via video link from Casuarina maximum security jail.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghantold the court his lawyer wanted the new matters adjourned until December.

However Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan will also appear in court again later this month on the charges relating to the assault.

Russell O’Callaghan faces court on threat-to-kill charge against former partner

Calla Wahlquist  PerthNow  August 13, 2014 

Russell O’Callaghan, the WA Police Commissioner’s son, faced Fremantle Magistrates Court on a string of serious assault charges, including threatening to kill his former partner.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, the WA Police Commissioner’s son, faced Fremantle Magistrates Court on a string of serious assault charges, including threatening to kill

THE son of WA Police Conmissioner Karl O’Callaghan has faced court on charges he threatened to kill his partner, while their five-year-old son was in the house.

Russell O’Callaghan, 33, appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court on seven charges, including threatening to kill and deprivation of liberty.

The police prosecutor told the court Mr O’Callaghan is alleged to have held his partner captive in her Langford home for two and a half days, beginning on Sunday afternoon.

During that time he is alleged to have put metal scissors to her neck and threatened to kill her, grabbed her in a headlock and dragged her down the hallway, strangled her and punched her to the face and body.

It is alleged Mr O’Callaghan went to the woman’s house to stay on Friday night.

The couple got into an argument on Sunday and Mr O’Callaghan took the keys to the house, saying: “You’re not going anywhere, bitch. I’m not going anywhere.”

The court heard the doors to the house are always locked to prevent the couple’s autistic child from leaving.

At one stage Mr O’Callaghan is alleged to have pinned the woman to the floor.

When he allegedly held the scissors to the woman’s neck, he is alleged to have said: “I’m going to stab your f..king throat, bitch. I’m going to kill you. This is the end of your life, I am going to kill you.”

Police said Mr O’Callaghan left the house yesterday morning, and the woman ran to a neighbours and called police. Mr O’Callaghan was arrested yesterday afternoon.

In total, he has been charged with two counts of common assault, unlawful assault occasioning bodily harm in circumstances of aggravation, threatening to kill, depriving a person of their liberty and making a threat with an intent to hinder or prevent someone doing an act.

The police prosecutor opposed bail.

Mr O’Callaghan’s lawyer rejected the police bid to keep him in custody, saying he (Mr O’Callaghan) “utterly denied” making any threats to kill or assault his former partner.

“Until the credibility of the complainant can be tested it would not be fair to lock Mr O’Callaghan up for an extended period,” she said.

The court heard that in January 2011, his ex-partner took out a ViolenceRestraining Order against Mr O’Callaghan.

A few days after the order was in place he breached it by texting her, and just weeks before it was due to lapse he breached it again by meeting her, at her request.

The couple had since been seeing each other a few days a week prior to the incidents at the weekend, the court was told.

Mr Russell Joseph O’Callaghan was remanded in custody until next Friday, to be assessed for home detention.

A Police Commissioner’s son accused of assault and threats to kill

 Nicole Cox

            Western Australian  poliice Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan comforts
          his son Russell during his stay in hospital after suffering injuries in a drug lab blast.

Mr Russell Joseph O’Callaghan the son of Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has been charged with a string of serious
          offences including deprivation of liberty and making threats to kill against his former partner.                     

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, 33, appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court on Wednesday accused of seven charges, including unlawful assault occasioning#
            bodily harm, making threats with intent and common assault with aggravation.

It               will be alleged that O’Callaghan held his former partner against her will at her home between August 10 and 12.

H             He applied for bail but a decision on the application will be heard later on Wednesday.

               The latest charges come after Russell O’Callaghan served eight months in jail for attempting to manufacture methamphetamines in 2011.

            O’Callaghan suffered serious burns to his head, shoulders and arms when a clandestine drug laboratory exploded in the laundry of the Homeswest house in Carlisle in March 2011.

F               four other people sustained burns in the explosion. Two children, aged three and four, escaped injury.

             In September 2011, O’Callaghan was jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to attempting to manufacture a prohibited drug, methamphetamine
                              but served eight months before being granted parole.

Two other men were also charged with similar offences.

At the time, O’Callaghan’s defence lawyer Mark Andrews said his client’s role in the drug manufacture on that day had been “peripheral” and he had never been involved in cooking amphetamines before.

He said O’Callaghan had agreed to supply one packet of cold and flu tablets in return for 0.1g of methamphetamine, which has an approximate value of $100.

Comment has been sought from WA Police.

A spokeswoman for the Police Commissioner said he would not make public comment on the matter at this stage.

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan comforts his son Russell during his stay in hospital after suffering injuries in a drug lab blast. Photo: Channel Ten.

A son of Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has been charged with a string of serious offences including deprivation of liberty and making threats to kill against his former partner.

Russell Joseph O’Callaghan, 33, appeared in Fremantle Magistrates Court on Wednesday accused of seven charges, including unlawful assault occasioning bodily harm, making threats with intent and common assault with aggravation.

It will be alleged that O’Callaghan held his former partner against her will at her home between August 10 and 12.

He applied for bail but a decision on the application will be heard later on Wednesday.

The latest charges come after Russell O’Callaghan served eight months in jail for attempting to manufacture methamphetamines in 2011.

O’Callaghan suffered serious burns to his head, shoulders and arms when a clandestine drug laboratory exploded in the laundry of the Homeswest house in Carlisle in March 2011.

Four other people sustained burns in the explosion. Two children, aged three and four, escaped injury.

In September 2011, O’Callaghan was jailed for 16 months after pleading guilty to attempting to manufacture a prohibited drug, methamphetamine but served eight months before being granted parole.

Two other men were also charged with similar offences.

At the time, O’Callaghan’s defence lawyer Mark Andrews said his client’s role in the drug manufacture on that day had been “peripheral” and he had never been involved in cooking amphetamines before.

He said O’Callaghan had agreed to supply one packet of cold and flu tablets in return for 0.1g of methamphetamine, which has an approximate value of $100.

Comment has been sought from WA Police.

A spokeswoman for the Police Commissioner said he would not make public comment on the matter at this stage
.Mr Russell Joseph O’Callaghan was remanded in custody until next Friday, to be assessed for home detention.

Russell O’Callaghan has been remanded in custody.

Police commissioner's SON pleads guilty to assaulting a woman and threatening to kill her

Russell O'Callaghan assaulted and threatened to kill a woman last year

The court heard he removed her underwear and threatened to rape her

He had also served jail time for attempting to manufacture drugs at home 

By Nicole Low For Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press

PUBLISHED: 13:02, 29 October 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3294896/Police-commissioner-s-son-pleads-guilty-assaulting-woman-threatening-kill-her.html

The son of West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has pleaded guilty to charges of assaulting a woman and threatening to kill her.

Russell Joseph O'Callaghan appeared in the West Australian District Court on Thursday via video link from Casuarina Prison.

He pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm, indecent assault and threatening to kill the woman in August last year.

Russell O'Callaghan has pleaded guilty of indecent assault and threatening to kill a woman (stock image)

O'Callaghan had threatened to rape a woman in August last year (stock image)

The court heard O'Callaghan had removed her underwear and threatened to rape her.

Charges of threatening with intent to influence and deprivation of liberty were dropped, while a charge of sexual penetration without consent had been committed to the District Court, but never indicted.

O'Callaghan had been granted home detention bail, but following claims he had breached his bail by contacting the victim, he was taken back into custody the ABC reported.

It was not his first brush with the law.

In September 2011, O'Callaghan was found guilty of being involved in a drug laboratory and was sentenced to 16 months jail.

The home drug lab exploded and left him with burns.

O'Callaghan will face a sentencing hearing on January 5.

O'Callaghan is the son of West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan (pictured, stock image)

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• WA Police Commissioner's son Russell O'Callaghan pleads guilty to assault, threats to kill - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Prison scandal: Crackdown exposes crooked jail guards
EXCLUSIVE Grant Taylor
Monday, 23 January 2017 


 Acacia Prison
Acacia Prison

http://www.guymerbailey.com.au/prisons-and-justice-architect-design/acacia-prison

Guymer Bailey Architects partnered Peter Hunt Architects in Perth in a successful design, construct and operate bid tendered by the Western Australian government to create the State’s first privately operated prison.
The brief was to design and build a medium security correctional facility with a 750 bed capacity, master planned to expand to 1100 beds. The design incorporates secure accommodation, a gate house, visitors’ centre, medical centre, as well as special care, geriatric, educational and spiritual amenities. Also available in the Acacia Prison Architecture is a range of vocational training resources and the supportive administration facilities.
Guymer Bailey’s design focus was to create a prison environment to be as much a normal community as possible or, in other words, an appropriate environment for rehabilitation coupled with personal development and improvement programs. The education and training facilities are crucial to improve employment opportunities on release from custody. Therefore, Acacia Prison functions in an open-campus layout with landscaped gardens and structures designed with differing cultural groups in mind. The open plan allows significant freedom of movement within the secure perimeter allowing prisoners to move around the campus using smart card technology, so as to promote their on-going confidence and responsibility.
The accommodation is separated into three levels of security classifications, each allowing varying degrees of privileges. Levels 1 and 2 accommodation are high and medium secure cell blocks. Level 3 accommodates 168 prisoners housed in six bed residential style self-care units clustered around recreational facilities.
CLIENT: AIMS
LOCATION: Wooroloo, WA
PROJECT TEAM: Guymer Bailey Architects & Peter Hunt Architect
Photography by: Peter Hunt Architect & Guymer Bailey Architects
http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/acacia.aspx
Acacia Prison is one of 2 privately-managed prisons in Western Australia. The prison is owned by the Department of Corrective Services which contracts management of the prison to an external service provider - Serco.
Acacia's open-plan, campus-style design means prisoners can move around within the complex fairly freely. Prisoners use 'smart card' technology to move within the prison, access their bank accounts and buy goods from the canteen.
Acacia's focus is on rehabilitation and it has a number of industries prisoners can work in including metal work and wood work.
Fast facts
Opened: May 2001
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Medium
Total capacity:
(as at 16 January 2017) 1513
Location: 54.6 km east of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9573 3300 and select option 1
Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 11.30 am and 12.30 pm to 3.00 pm
Friday visit bookings close Thursday 11.30 am
Saturday bookings close Friday 11.30 am
Sunday bookings close Friday 3.00 pm
The number of visitors per visit is limited to 6 with a maximum of 3 adults.
Visiting times
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday: 8.00 am to 9.15 am, 9.45 am to 11.15 am, 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm, 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm
Protection only visits: Monday 9.45 am, Saturday 1.00 pm, Sunday 8.00 am
All other visits are Mainstream.
Getting there
A free bus service is available from Midland Train Station on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The bus service must be booked when the visit is booked as seats are limited.
Buses leave Midland Train Station on: Friday at 7.15 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm, Saturday at 7.00 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm, Sunday at 7.15 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm, Monday at 7.15 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm
There are no public transport services to the prison.
Cashier
The cashier is available Monday to Sunday 8.00 am to 11.30 am and 12.30 pm to 3.00 pm, except public holidays.
Cash and EFTPOS available.
Contact details: Acacia Prison, Great Eastern Highway, WOOROLOO WA 6558
Telephone: +61 8 9573 3300, Facsimile: +61 8 9573 3350
Postal address: Acacia Prison, Locked Bag 1, WOOROLOO WA 6558


https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/crackdown-exposes-crooked-jail-guards-ng-b88359587z

Almost one prison guard a week has been sacked or has quit before they were forced out as part of a crackdown on corruption and serious misconduct inside WA jails.

Figures provided by the Department of Corrective Services show 25 guards lost their jobs in the first six months of this financial year. Another 12 are suspended for offences that were likely to result in their dismissal if proved.

The half-year figures represent a significant increase on the previous full financial year when 16 DCS employees lost their jobs. Nine were forced out in 2014-15.

Drug dealing, sexual misconduct, violence towards inmates, misusing prison computers and crimes committed outside prison such as domestic violence were some of the offences that guards — including youth custodial officers — were investigated over.

Corrective Services Minister Joe Francis welcomed the results, claiming the figures were a “vindication” of his efforts to push through controversial anti-corruption measures which he said were helping to clean up the jail system.

Those measures included mandatory drug and alcohol testing, introducing a police-style “loss of confidence” process to make it easier to sack staff suspected of corruption and re-forming a joint police and prisons task force to investigate crimes behind bars.
“It is not acceptable at any level for people who are paid by the taxpayer to help reform prisoners to be involved in inappropriate activities,” Mr Francis said.
“You probably belong behind bars yourself... and at the very minimum there is no place for you on the public payroll.”

The loss-of-confidence process accounted for only one of this year’s job losses and resulted in a guard tendering his resignation before a decision about his future had been made.

The allegations are understood to have involved claims of inappropriate sexual conduct towards an inmate.

Another officer resigned late last year over allegations he was responsible for getting a female inmate pregnant at Bandyup.

Shadow corrective services minister Paul Papalia said that though he agreed corrupt officers needed to be weeded out, he did not believe corruption was widespread and accused the Government of ignoring the real problems in WA jails.

“We have had 53 per cent growth in the prison population in eight years and crime is still going up,” Mr Papalia said.
“What they are doing is clearly not working.”
In the past three months, mandatory drug tests have snared four officers — three of whom tested positive to drugs.

The fourth refused to take a drug test, which was likely to result in their dismissal. Two other officers were allegedly caught in possession of methamphetamine and their cases are before the courts.
Det-Sen Sgt Ian Thompson, who heads the joint task force investigating corruption in jails, said methamphetamine use among prison staff was a growing concern because it made them vulnerable to being corrupted.
“Meth is a growing problem in the broader community and guards are members of that community,” Det-Sen. Sgt Thompson said.

“But they are also public officers and they must be held to a higher standard, just like police officers.”
DCS Deputy Commissioner Tony Hassell said the vast majority of prison guards were doing the right thing, but the actions of a few were threatening to undermine that valuable work.
“Our message on corruption or serious misconduct in prisons is clear: if you are proven to do the wrong thing, putting others at risk and our operations, you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” Mr Hassell said.
WA Prison Officers’ Union secretary John Welch said his members were not opposed to greater scrutiny, provided they were dealt with fairly and were not denied due process if accused of wrongdoing.

Weygers calls top cop 'Dirty Harry'

Simon White, PerthNow - November 25, 2016

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/weygers-calls-top-cop-dirty-harry/news-story/9622a2e849e68ade743e9e0b14024d7c

Former mayor of Claremont Peter Weygers

Former mayor of Claremont Peter Weygers says he called WA Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan “Dirty Harry” and blamed him for ruining his life through the Claremont Serial Killer investigation, during a random streetside confrontation last week.

According to the Subiaco Post, Mr Weygers was on a brief visit to a house he owns in Embleton, when he exited the property, saw a camera on a tripod and then noticed the commissioner.

The photographer was from The West Australian and snapping Dr O’Callaghan for a matter completely unrelated to Mr Weygers, with neither party aware of his connection to the property.

Mr Weygers said previously being identified by Mr O’Callaghan as a person of interest in the serial killings case had raised his anxiety at seeing the top cop.

“It made me tremble in fear,” the Post reported Mr Weygers as saying.

“Either he was coming to apologise for the policing leading people to believe I was a serial killer or he was going to arrest me for it.

“I wouldn’t miss the opportunity – I walked over and called the commissioner Dirty Harry.”

According to The Post, the house involved in the incident was same one searched by police in 2004, an event Mr Weygers said his son had still not recovered from.

The deaths of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, all of whom disappeared from Claremont at night within 15 months of each other in 1996 and 1997 remain unsolved.

The body of Ms Spiers, 18, was never found.

Mr O’Callaghan declined to comment on his most recent meeting with Mr Weygers, the Post reported.

Originally published as Weygers and WA's top cop in random meeting

 

Mokbel moved out of high security unit
Source: http://krock.com.au/news/47025-mokbel-moved-out-of-high-security-unit
News

http://krock.com.au/news/47025-mokbel-moved-out-of-high-security-unit

Mokbel moved out of high security unit 
Tony Mokbel has been moved out of Barwon Prison's Acacia Unit and there is talk it could be related to the joining of two gangs inside the Lara jail. There have been reports the two groups linking up to secure even more power behind prison walls. 
It has been suggested Mokbel has been talking with gang leader Matthew Charles Johnson, the man who killed Carl Williams inside the prison in April 2010. 
Police have admitted this week they are very worried at the reported alliance between the Hells Angels and the Prisoners of War group.

Source: http://krock.com.au/news/47025-mokbel-moved-out-of-high-security-unit

Message from the Western Australian Commissioner of Corrective Services

The Honourable Joe Francis MLA is the Minister for Emergency Services, Fisheries, Corrective Services and Veterans for the Colin Barnett Western Australian Liberal Government

Joseph Michael "Joe" Francis (born 11 December 1970) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2008 to 2017, representing the seat of Jandakot. He was a minister in the government of Colin Barnett from March 2013 to March 2017.
Francis was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Robyn Caroline Mitchell and Charles Henry Francis. He has one sister Janelle May Francis. His primary education was at Spiritus Sanctus Primary school at North Ryde NSW. He attended Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, and after leaving school joined the Royal Australian Navy. He served in the navy from 1989 to 1994, and subsequently worked as a political staffer for several years.[1] Francis moved to Western Australia in 2000, operating a small business. He re-enlisted in the navy in 2002, and served as a navigator and warfare officer with the RAN Submarine Service, initially aboard HMAS Farncomb and later as an instructor at a training centre.
In 2008, Francis left the navy in order to run for parliament at the 2008 state election. He was elected to the newly created seat of Jandakot, which had been created with a notional majority for the Labor Party.
 In June 2012, Francis was appointed parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Commerce, and the Minister for Small Business. After the 2013 state election, where he increased his majority in Jandakot, Francis was elevated to the ministry, becoming Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Corrective Services, and Minister for Veterans. In August 2013, he was also made Minister for Small Business. He relinquished that position to Sean L'Estrange in a reshuffle in March 2016, but was made Minister for Fisheries instead.
The Colin Barnett Ministry is the 35th and current Ministry of the Government of Western Australia. It includes 13 members of the Liberal Party, three members of the National Party of Western Australia and an independent. It is led by the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, and Deputy Premier Liza Harvey. It succeeded the Carpenter Ministry on 23 September 2008 following the 2008 election.

The Governor, Ken Michael, designated 17 principal executive offices of the Government under section 43(2) of the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1899.

 The following ministers and parliamentary secretaries were then appointed to the positions, and served until the reconstitution of the Ministry on 14 December 2010. The list below is ordered by decreasing seniority within the Cabinet, as indicated by the Government Gazette and the Hansard index. Blue entries indicate members of the Liberal Party, green entries indicate members of the National Party, and grey indicates an Independent.


Office Minister
Premier
Minister for State Development
Treasurer (from 28 April 2010)


Colin Barnett, MLA
Deputy Premier
Minister for Health
Minister for Indigenous Affairs


Dr Kim Hames, MLA
Minister for Mines and Petroleum
Minister for Fisheries
Minister for Electoral Affairs


Norman Moore, MLC
Minister for Regional Development
Minister for Lands
Minister assisting the Minister for State Development
Minister assisting the Minister for Transport


Brendon Grylls, MLA
Minister for Education
Minister for Tourism
Minister for Women's Interests (until 9 February 2009)


Dr Elizabeth Constable, MLA
Minister for Transport
Minister for Disability Services


Simon O'Brien, MLC
Treasurer
Minister for Commerce
Minister for Science and Innovation
Minister for Housing and Works


Troy Buswell, MLA
(until 27 April 2010)[1]
Minister for Police
Minister for Emergency Services
Minister for Road Safety


Rob Johnson, MLA
Minister for Sport and Recreation
Minister for Racing and Gaming
Minister assisting the Minister for Health


Terry Waldron, MLA
Minister for Planning
Minister for Culture and the Arts
Minister for the Environment (from 22 November 2010 to 14 December 2010)
Minister for Youth (from 22 November 2010 to 14 December 2010)


John Day, MLA
Minister for Energy
Minister for Training
Minister for Workforce Development (from 17 November 2009)


Peter Collier, MLC
Attorney-General
Minister for Corrective Services


Christian Porter, MLA
Minister for Child Protection
Minister for Community Services
Minister for Seniors and Volunteering
Minister for Women's Interests (from 9 February 2009)


Robyn McSweeney, MLC
Minister for Water
Minister for Mental Health


Dr Graham Jacobs, MLA
Minister for Local Government
Minister for Heritage
Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Interests


John Castrilli, MLA
Minister for Agriculture and Food
Minister for Forestry
Minister assisting the Minister of Education


Terry Redman, MLA
Minister for the Environment
Minister for Youth


Donna Faragher, MLC (until 22 November 2010)
Minister for Commerce
Minister for Science and Innovation
Minister for Housing and Works


Bill Marmion, MLA
(from 28 April 2010)[1]
Parliamentary Secretaries


Murray Cowper, MLA
Bill Marmion, MLA (until 28 April 2010)[1]
Michael Mischin, MLC (from 11 August 2009)
Helen Morton, MLC
Tony Simpson, MLA
Wendy Duncan, MLC
Barry House, MLC (until 27 May 2009)


http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/utilities/contact-us.aspx#General-enquiries

Ex-prison guard blows whistle on life inside WA jails

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/ex-prison-guard-blows-whistle-on-life-inside-wa-jails/news-story/12a38d9b2d3ba7527205f36b82d08500

Ex-prison guard blows whistle on life inside WA jails

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/ex-prison-guard-blows-whistle-on-life-inside-wa-jails/news-story/12a38d9b2d3ba7527205f36b82d08500

Exclusive Trevor Paddenburg, The Sunday Times

November 13, 2010 10:00am



PRISON guards gambled on fights between criminals and bashed problem inmates, says a former guard who today blows the whistle on misconduct and corruption in the WA penal system.
Former senior guard and riot-squad officer Adrian Commons, 59 - who retired in 2008 after nearly 20 years working in Casuarina, Wooroloo and Fremantle prisons - agreed to speak to The Sunday Times to expose what he says are "deep flaws" in the state's corrective services system.
Mr Commons revealed:
* Prisoners organised fights and guards regularly bet on the outcome.
* Guards "fight violence with violence" and assaults on prisoners are common.
* WA jails are awash with drugs.
* Love affairs are not uncommon between male prisoners and female prison staff such as nurses and psychologists.
* Special protection prisoners such as sex offenders and pedophiles had semen, urine and blood mixed into their food by inmates on kitchen duty.
Mr Commons said during the 1990s a vacant quadrangle near the infirmary at Casuarina Prison was used for "grudge fights" between prisoners - and guards frequently placed bets on the outcome.
"The prisoners would post a couple of sentries at either end and they'd have a punch-up. We (prison guards) had an informant so we knew when there was a fight coming up.
"We'd have wagers on the outcome and, yeah, I laid my share of bets usually $10 or so," said the former guard, who will release a tell-all book, Confessions of a Prison Officer, early next year.
Mr Commons, of Rockingham, said that throughout his career - and still today - drug use was rife in prisons.
He said the Department of Corrective Services was not serious about cracking down on drugs because it continued to allow contact visits.
"Visitors were always bringing drugs in. It's so easy. They'd tie a bag or a condom with string and wedge the string in their teeth, or just have it under their tongue," he said.
The veteran guard said officers were often forced to "fight violence with violence".
"If a prisoner takes a swing, you're not going to stand there and get punched in the head," he said.
"Within an hour on my first day in Freo prison, I had my first violent confrontation. I was told to forget everything I'd learnt at training school. In our reports, we wrote self-defence, but in reality... it's dog eat dog."
Mr Commons said that during his two decades on the job, he knew of half a dozen love affairs between male prisoners and female staff. Prisoners also carried on criminal activities from behind bars, Mr Commons said.
"One inmate heard I'd separated from my wife and asked if I wanted a 'hit' on her. He said, 'Boss, do you want me to knock her off?' He was offering to have her assassinated, and he was dead serious," he said.
Mr Commons said he retired in 2008 and was still in close contact with former workmates, so he knew many of his allegations were still relevant today.
His revelations come in the same week a former prison officer at Bandyup Women's Prison appeared in court charged with tampering with the prison system's phone after forming a "special relationship" with an inmate.
Mr Commons said many prisoners saw jail as a "vacation".
"Where else can you get free meals, free clothes, a free bed? You can watch movies all night. You can get a free education. If you've got a headache, you press an emergency button and there's a medic on call to give you a Panadol," Mr Commons said.
He said "special protection" inmates such as pedophiles were targeted by mainstream prisoners.
Mr Commons also said the WA penal system was not improving because overcrowding was adding to its woes.
Opposition corrective services spokesman Paul Papalia said it was "undeniable" there were drugs in prisons and that record overcrowding was making conditions worse.
But Attorney-General Christian Porter said there is "now higher levels of supervision of prisoners than there has ever been in WA".
"There is no point commenting on a book I have not read about events before I was minister, but let me say that last week a prison officer was sacked because they put a prisoner's toothbrush in a toilet bowl and that indicates the high standards the present Government expects from a modern prison system," Mr Porter said.
WA Prison Officers Union secretary John Welch agreed drugs were present in WA jails, but said that Mr Commons' other claims were "surprising".
"Practices and procedures have changed dramatically in WA jails in the last 20 years," Mr Welch said.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 16/12/2016

Reporter: Hayden Cooper

 

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2016/s4593967.htm

 

West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan joins 7.30 to discuss the findings into the death of Ms Dhu

Transcript

HAYDEN COOPER, PRESENTER: The West Australian Police Commissioner, Karl O'Callaghan, joined me earlier from Perth.

Commissioner, what did you think when you first saw that footage? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN, WA POLICE COMMISSIONER: Oh, well, I was disturbed and concerned by the footage and, to be quite frank, embarrassed as well, like I think many members of the West Australia Police would have been when they saw that, back in 2014. 

HAYDEN COOPER: Has anyone been held accountable for what happened? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, absolutely. There's been an internal investigation which has been oversighted by the Corruption and Crime Commission. And there's 11 officers in total who were interviewed and all of them received some form of sanction under the police regulations in Western Australia.

So they have been held accountable - and this was now going back to 2014. The internal investigation was done almost immediately: within a day of the event. 

HAYDEN COOPER: The family of Ms Dhu, though, clearly believe that no-one has been held accountable. Why is that? And, for example, why was no-one sacked over such a horrific event? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, look: firstly, it's hard to understand how the family feel. It must be an awful situation to be in. And I know they would feel like they want justice in this.

But we did do an internal investigation, which didn't identify any criminality. That was independently oversighted by the Corruption and Crime Commission, which didn't identify criminality. And indeed, the coroner in her findings today didn't identify criminality.

So at the time, we went to the remedies that were available to us under police regulations and all of those officers received some form of sanction. 

HAYDEN COOPER: What you said there explains, I guess, why no charges have been laid. But it doesn't explain why no-one was sacked. I mean, if, as the coroner says, these police officers acted unprofessionally and inhumanely, why were they not sacked for what happened?

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, they are in breach of procedures and policies under police regulations. And there are specific things under police regulations which I have to follow. I also work under the Industrial Relations Act and I take advice, obviously, from - legal advice on these matters: and the legal advice I received was how we applied the sanctions to those police officers at the time, back in 2014. 

HAYDEN COOPER: Is it common for a WA Police officer to dismiss someone when they complain that they are in pain, as happened in this case? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, no, I think it's a highly unusual case. We have thousands and thousands of custodial events every year and all of them go off without a glitch.

In this case the officers did take the - Ms Dhu to hospital. They did seek medical attention. But the way in which it was done was wrong and it was clearly without compassion and without dignity for Ms Dhu. 

HAYDEN COOPER: Can I get you to clarify again: you say they were sanctioned. What were the sanctions? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, there are a number of sanctions available under the police regulations. We never discuss those publicly.

But those sanctions affect the career path and trajectory of those police officers, obviously. So they have an impact on the officers' position in the West Australia Police. 

HAYDEN COOPER: And what about the police officer who told the nurse that Ms Dhu was faking her illness? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, again: look, policies apply to this. But I have to say that, at the end of the day, it is a medical professional's responsibility to make their own, independent assessment and not rely on advice from police officers or laypersons.

HAYDEN COOPER: All right. Now, the coroner has recommended that people are no longer imprisoned for the non-payment of fines. Is that something that your police force will implement? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: I'm absolutely committed to it and I've been saying it for some time: nobody in Western Australia should be in a police lock-up for non-payment of fines.

We now believe that the way to handle this is, if there must be some incarceration, it needs to be done by the Department of Corrective Service or Prisons. And indeed, we will be instructing police officers in this state that, if they have not got a plan to get that person to a prison within eight hours of arrest, they're not to execute the warrant.

Now, that could be a problem in Western Australia, because it contravenes some of the orders of the court that are in place currently. 

HAYDEN COOPER: And is that procedure already happening? You've issued that directive to your force? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: We're about to issue the directive. It probably won't be fully rounded out until next week, because it's quite complicated.

We have to take into consideration how this affects the most remote locations in Western Australia. I must say that these warrants mostly affect Aboriginal people in regional Western Australia, so it will become quite complicated when we get down to the transfer of those prisoners to a Corrective Service facility.

HAYDEN COOPER: With the changes you are implementing, can you say with any certainty that something like this will not happen again? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, what I can say with certainty is that the risk of anything like this happening again will be reduced, because we get about 1,000 of these types of warrants a year. They mostly apply to Aboriginal people.

And if we can eliminate Aboriginal people coming into West Australia lock-ups or watch houses by doing it differently, it will have an enormous impact, I think.

HAYDEN COOPER: Commissioner, the family of Ms Dhu clearly believe that this is an issue of racism. And the underlying question: is would a white woman have been treated in this same way? 

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Well, look, in fact, the coroner didn't find that and said exactly the opposite. And she had the opportunity to question the officers in a lot of detail when she was doing the inquest.

So none of those fi- none of those claims, I should say, stack up. 

HAYDEN COOPER: OK. Commissioner, thank you.

KARL O'CALLAHGHAN: Thank you, Hayden.

 

'Inhumane and unprofessional': Shocking footage of Ms Dhu released as family fights on

Heather McNeill -DECEMBER 16 2016

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/shocking-footage-of-ms-dhu-will-be-released-by-coroner-20161216-gtck7m.html

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned this article contains images, audio and references to deceased persons.

Harrowing footage of the final moments of Ms Dhu's life has been released after the 22-year-old's family won their fight to "show the world the truth" about how she was treated before her death in custody.

And her family will push for those involved in her "inhumane and unprofessional" treatment to be prosecuted after Coroner Ros Fogliani found her death could have been prevented if she had been treated with antibiotics.

Outside court, Ms Dhu's grandmother Carol Roe told WAtoday the family felt justice had still not been served after the Coroner failed to recommend anyone be charged for Ms Dhu's death.

She said the family would push for the police officers and medical staff who treated her to be prosecuted despite previous investigations by police and the Corruption and Crime Commission finding their actions involved no criminality. 

"There's still no justice for the family," Ms Roe said.

"That's our next step, we want justice, we want to go to court and get everyone accounted for."

Ms Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, died while spending three days locked up at South Hedland Police Station in August 2014 for $3622 of unpaid fines. 

The woman's family initially opposed media requests to obtain the vision, which was repeatedly played during a coronial inquest into her death, but their lawyers later said they had reconsidered because it was in the public interest.

The damning footage, taken between August 2 and 4 at the police station's lock-up and Hedland Health Campus, showed Ms Dhu being dragged from her cell, handcuffed, while paralysed. 

She was then hauled, dying, into the back of a police vehicle and either died in transit, or on arrival at hospital. 

Handing down her inquest findings on Friday, the Coroner said she was releasing the footage publicly, however vision of Ms Dhu's final moments - when she was possibly already dead - would not be released, at her father's request.

"There's still no justice for the family."

Ms Fogliani called the treatment of Ms Dhu at the police station "inhumane and unprofessional".

"The circumstances around her death are tragic and disturbing," the Coroner said, before extending her condolences to Ms Dhu's family. 

Ms Dhu's grandmother Carol Roe hugging a friend outside court. 

Read the Coroner's findings here

She found the conduct of the medical staff and police officers involved was well below the standards expected. 

Ms Dhu died after she was held at South Hedland police station in WA. Photo: ABC News

Officers and medical staff were not motivated by conscious racism but it would be naive to deny existence of unfounded assumptions about Ms Dhu being formed, the Coroner found. 

Carol Roe outside court after the Coroner's findings were handed down. 

"The majority of the persons responsible for Ms Dhu's care formed the view that she was exaggerating or feigning symptoms of being unwell. 

"On the morning of 4 August 2014 the police assumed that she was feigning her collapse.

"That assumption persisted up until the time the doctors commenced their resuscitation attempts at Hedland Health Campus at 12.45 pm on 4 August 2014."

The Coroner made eleven recommendations at the inquest, including a review of incarceration as a penalty for unpaid fines. 

Shortly after the findings were made public, Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan announced people on arrest warrants for unpaid fines would no longer be held in police lock-ups.

"A police lock up or watch house is not a place for any person to be held for a significant period of time.They are not designed for that purpose, especially those in regional Australia... it is simply not suitable," he said. 

"[The warrants] will be served in prisons."

Mr O'Callaghan said people on arrest warrants would not be held more than eight hours in a lock-up, and that arrest warrants would not be executed unless a plan had already been made for the person to be transferred to a prison. 

Despite family calls for the police officers involved in Ms Dhu's care before her death to be charged, Mr O'Callaghan said three investigations, including a CCC and internal police investigation, had revealed no criminality on the officers' part.

Four officers were sanctioned and another seven were found to have breached police procedure following the internal police investigation in 2014.

Mr O'Callaghan said he was not aware of how many of the officers were still serving with WA Police, or if any were still serving in South Hedland.   

Meanwhile, all liquor outlets in Ms Dhu's home town of South Hedland have been closed by police due to concerns of "civil disorder". 

South Hedland Police Senior Sergeant Dean Snashall said the booze ban was enforced following a series of serious alcohol-fueled assaults in recent days and the pending release of the footage showing Ms Dhu's final moments. 

 

Ms Dhu's death in custody: The shocking footage that Australia needs to see

Ruth Barson -SEPTEMBER 26 2016

http://www.watoday.com.au/comment/ms-dhus-death-in-custody-the-shocking-footage-that-australia-needs-to-see-20160925-groblx.html

Dragged from her cell. Handcuffed and paralysed. Hauled, dying, into the back of a police truck. This week Australia may be confronted, yet again, with images and footage of the justice system failing Aboriginal people, with devastating results.

Ms Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, died slowly and alone on the concrete floor of a regional police cell at South Hedland police station in August 2014. She was 22 years old, had never been in custody before and was locked up for three days because she couldn't pay her fines.

NT abuse royal commission

The Royal Commission into the abuse of young people will focus on the Don Dale Detention Centre and the NT with some calling for a wider enquiry. Courtesy ABC.

The Western Australian Coroner presiding over the inquest into Ms Dhu's death in police custody will decide whether to publicly release harrowing footage of Ms Dhu, a young Yamatji woman, dying a cruel, unnecessary death.

We've witnessed the capacity of shocking footage to propel action and accountability after Four Corners aired footage from the Don Dale youth detention centre. Sometimes we have to see in order to believe. 

Ms Dhu died after she was held at South Hedland police station in WA.Photo: ABC News

I sat with Ms Dhu's family when the footage of her death was played in the Coroner's Court. They held their breath, watching their beloved daughter, sister, cousin and granddaughter crying out in pain, being dismissed and ignored by those who owed her a duty of care.

Ms Dhu's family wants the world to see this footage. They have tirelessly advocated for the past two years for us to see what they can never un-see. They want us to know what now haunts them and many other Aboriginal families every day: that prejudice and intolerance live and breathe in the very bones of the criminal justice system. And that accountability for this is rare.

As a teenager, Ms Dhu should have been cautioned and diverted for her low-level offending, rather than arrested by police and fined by a magistrate. As a young adult – poor and in a domestic violence situation – she should have never been taken into police custody and locked up for being unable to pay her fines. And in custody, she should have never been treated inhumanely and with such contempt for her wellbeing. Ms Dhu should never have died in custody.

Western Australia has the highest Aboriginal imprisonment rates in Australia; and Aboriginal women are the fastest-growing prisoner demographic in the country. Mick Gooda, the former Social Justice Commissioner, has called Aboriginal peoples' over-imprisonment a human rights crisis. The United Nations repeatedly hauls Australia over the coals for this injustice.

As a society, we have known these stark facts for some time, but we tend to live in a state of collective denial when it comes to racial prejudice and the criminal justice system.

Non-Indigenous people, like me, can largely choose the privilege of turning a blind eye. It is rarely our fathers, aunties, children or siblings who are punished by a justice system septic with discrimination. Australia now locks up more people than ever before, and it is marginalised people who suffer the brunt of this hyper-imprisonment culture.

So in truth, we should not be shocked by the brutality of Ms Dhu's death when for so long we, and our elected representatives, have ignored the evidence.

Twenty-five years ago the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody provided a road map for reducing imprisonment rates. Numerous national and state and territory reports have rehashed the importance of the royal commission's recommendations. But successive governments around Australia have chosen to ignore these recommendations. One was to use cautions and diversion wherever possible. Another was to avoid locking people up for unpaid fines. Another was to properly fund and consult with Aboriginal organisations.

The Western Australian Premier, Colin Barnett, made a personal promise to Ms Dhu's family that he would take meaningful action. But Aboriginal women in Western Australia continue to be locked up at unprecedented rates because they cannot pay their fines. The Aboriginal Legal Service is still not adequately funded. And punitive, "lock-em-up" policies and practices prevail.

Victoria is perhaps the only jurisdiction to have made a genuine, long-term effort to begin to turn things around. An Aboriginal Justice Agreement; Koori Courts; justice targets; recently improved fines laws; diversionary practices; and a Charter of Human Rights are all critical steps in the right direction. While still more can be done, this progress has required commitment and ongoing consultation.

If the Western Australian Coroner releases the footage to the public this week, it is incumbent upon us all to watch, to be outraged and then to demand change. It is well and truly time for us to insist that our elected representatives – and the laws and policies they enact – value the lives and liberty of Aboriginal people.

It has now been more than two years since Ms Dhu died. Her family is still awaiting answers. They will never stop grieving. They will never again celebrate Christmas in the same way because Ms Dhu's birthday is on Boxing Day. They are forever marred by an unimaginable suffering; compounded by an Australia that implicitly but repeatedly says that Aboriginal peoples' lives matter less.

We owe it to Ms Dhu and her family to stand by their side and demand accountability and change. Equality and justice should be hallmarks of our society, rather than reserved for those of us with the privilege to pretend they already are.

Ruth Barson is director of legal advocacy at the Human Rights Law Centre. 

Coroner delays decision on release of CCTV of Ms Dhu's final moments

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/footage-of-final-moments-of-ms-dhus-life-expected-to-be-released-20160928-grqct7.html

Heather McNeill

The family of death-in-custody victim Ms Dhu have made an impassioned plea for the State Coroner to publicly release CCTV footage of her final moments to honour her memory and help prevent similar deaths. 

Ms Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, died while spending three days locked-up at South Hedland Police Station in August 2014 for $3622 worth of unpaid fines.

Grandmother of Ms Dhu speaks outside court

Ms Dhu's grandmother, Carol Roe, became emotional when telling the media that black lives matter outside of court.

The 22-year-old's family initially opposed media requests to obtain the vision, which was repeatedly played during a coronial inquest, but their lawyers later said the family had reconsidered their position and believed it was in the public interest.

The footage, taken between August 2 and 4 at South Hedland police station's lock-up and Hedland Health Campus, shows Ms Dhu being dragged from her cell, handcuffed and paralysed. 

Ms Dhu died after she was held at South Hedland police station in WA. Photo: ABC News

She was then hauled, dying, into the back of a police vehicle and either died in transit, or on arrival, at hospital. 

State Coroner Ros Fogliani on Wednesday heard submissions from lawyers on behalf of Ms Dhu's family, the media, WA Police and the WA Country Health Service as to whether the footage should be released. 

Ms Dhu died from pneumonia and an infection from a broken rib that went untreated after police officers and medical staff tending to her assumed she was a "junkie" faking her illness. She was on her third visit to hospital in as many days. 

The CCTV footage shows Ms Dhu in her cell, in the back of a police van and at hospital. 

Ms Dhu's grandmother, father and mother, applied for the CCTV footage of Ms Dhu's final moments to be released in August after originally opposing it because it was too traumatising. 

In their new submission, they claimed it would provide Ms Dhu's relatives with a sense of closure and comfort for the public to see how she was treated. 

Father, Robert Dhu, however, does not want parts of the footage where Ms Dhu was dead publicly released. 

Outside Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday, Ms Dhu's grandmother, Carol Roe, became emotional when telling the media that "black lives matter". 

"My message is stop killing us black fellas, leave us alone," she said. 

"If it was your kid that was murdered, would you want to see that happen? 

"I want the truth." 

Counsel assisting the Coroner, Phillip Urquhart, warned Ms Fogliani the footage could be misused once made public, which could cause distress to Ms Dhu's family. 

"If your honour was to exercise her discretion and release the footage sought, it is my submission that such release should not take place prior to your honour's handing down of your findings," Mr Urquhart said. 

"To do otherwise invites speculation and comment as to what the Coroners finding ought to be... which would be entirely inappropriate." 

The lawyer representing Ms Dhu's father said Mr Dhu believed releasing the footage would minimise the potential for a similar incident happening again.

"He sees this as an act of respect to Ms Dhu," his lawyer said. 

Seven West Media lawyer Tony McCarthy told the State Coroner the public needed to see the footage to understand the issue, and argued the coroner had no discretion. 

"The public should be told exactly what the circumstances are in this matter," he said. 

"Otherwise, your Honour, there is no open justice." 

WA Police did not object the the release of the footage.

WA Country Health Service opposed its release and requested, if footage from the hospital was to be made public, that members of the public in the waiting room's faces be blurred.

The State Coroner has reserved her decision on the matter to a later date.

The inquest continues.

- with AAP 

Western Australian police chief Karl O'Callaghan and WA former West Australian Premier Colin Barnett
 slammed for citing and supporting Bill Leak cartoon, 'inflaming racial tensions'

By Eliza Borrello - 21 Oct 2016

WA's top cop criticised for provoking racial tensions in Kalgoorlie

Posted 21 Oct 2016, 9:22am

Bill Leak's cartoon showed an Aboriginal man with a beer can who could not remember his son's name.

Bill Leak's cartoon showed an Aboriginal man with a beer can who could not remember his son's name.

The Australian: Bill Leak

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-21/wa-commissioner-karl-ocallaghan-racial-tensions-bill-leak/7956442

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-21/bill-leak-aboriginal-man-and-son-cartoon/7956454

PHOTO: Dennis Eggington has joined the criticism of the police chief. (720 ABC Perth: Emma Wynne)

"The Commissioner is only too aware that children's' offending behaviours can touch any family," he said.

"To blame all parents would be assumptive, hurtful and ignorant of the complexities that lead to such issues arising."

Premier Colin Barnett said while he did not endorse the cartoon itself, which he said had caused offence, he believed the Commissioner's comments were "correct".

MPs from both sides of politics have accused WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan of provoking racial tensions in Kalgoorlie after he referenced a controversial cartoon by Bill Leak.

On Thursday, Commissioner O'Callaghan said a controversial cartoon by Leak was an "accurate reflection" of what his officers dealt with among some Aboriginal families.

The cartoon, published in August, depicted an Aboriginal man with a beer can who does not remember his son's name.

Commissioner O'Callaghan made the comments while discussing the case of a 10-year-old boy charged over the trashing of Kalgoorlie Boulder Community High School on the weekend.

"The reports I've got from the police is that they went to the father of that child, and the father of that child was not interested in caring for the child and was not interested in taking responsibility," he said on Thursday.

"So we ended up for many hours looking after that child, trying to find a responsible adult."

However, while Leak's cartoon depicts an Indigenous father and son, it has since been revealed the boy charged in Kalgoorlie was not Aboriginal.

The WA Nationals MP for Kalgoorlie and Deputy Speaker Wendy Duncan said the Commissioner's remarks were "outrageous".

"These comments by people like Karl O'Callaghan, people in high places that everybody respects, are taken on board," she said.

"And when they're not necessarily true, they just inflame the racial tension, when what we really need is reconciliation."

Tensions have run high in Kalgoorlie since the death of an Aboriginal teenager two months ago.

Ms Duncan said Commissioner O'Callaghan had set back the good work being done by people in the city.

"I've had feedback from people who work with Aboriginal people, and that was what drew it to my attention this morning, to just say this can't continue," she said.

"I don't blame Aboriginal people in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for becoming very disheartened."

O'Callaghan's language unhelpful: Wyatt

Ms Duncan was backed up by Labor's Aboriginal affairs spokesman Minister Ben Wyatt, who is Indigenous.

"Ultimately when you have tensions as high as they have been in Kalgoorlie, political leaders such as the Police Commissioner need to have an understanding that language has an impact," he said.

"The sort of language that he's used ... will not aid the sort of outcomes that we're hoping to achieve in Kalgoorlie.

"I dare say the local police will be feeling the brunt of comments that don't assist the sort of efforts that people have been going to to reduce tensions."

Commissioner O'Callaghan declined the ABC's request for an interview.

But through a spokeswoman, he said the cartoon reflected the dysfunction in some Indigenous and non-Indigenous families in regional and remote WA.

Blaming all parents 'assumptive': ALS

Aboriginal Legal Service of WA CEO Dennis Eggington also expressed dismay at Commissioner O'Callaghan's remarks.

"The Commissioner is only too aware that children's' offending behaviours can touch any family," he said.

"To blame all parents would be assumptive, hurtful and ignorant of the complexities that lead to such issues arising."

Premier Colin Barnett said while he did not endorse the cartoon itself, which he said had caused offence, he believed the Commissioner's comments were "correct".

"Unfortunately too often, parents are simply not taking responsibility for children, including very young children," Mr Barnett said.

"We've seen that in Kalgoorlie, but Kalgoorlie is not alone and it's not only Aboriginal children. We see it throughout the state."

WA's top cop criticised for provoking racial tensions in Kalgoorlie

Posted 21 Oct 2016, 9:35am

Dennis Eggington has joined the criticism of the police chief.

720 ABC Perth: Emma Wynne

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-21/dennis-eggington-august-24,-2016.jpg/7956510

PHOTO: Dennis Eggington has joined the criticism of the police chief. (720 ABC Perth: Emma Wynne)

WA's top cop criticised for provoking racial tensions in Kalgoorlie

Updated 21 Oct 2016, 10:46am

Karl O'Callaghan referenced the cartoon while talking about a non-Indigenous child.

ABC News

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-21/police-commissioner-karl-ocallaghan-at-a-police-graduation-cer/7956508

 

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan calls 'bulls**t' on Stolen Generation concerns

Colleen Egan, PerthNow - November 21, 2016

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/police-commissioner-karl-ocallaghan-calls-bullst-on-stolen-generation-concerns/news-story/7dfa4f0ab6e5fe15e2e0ab6447e7c28e

Police commissioner Karl O'Callaghan. Picture: Nic EllisLEAVING

Aboriginal children in dysfunctional families because of concerns about repeating the stolen generations is “bulls..t”, Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan has said.

Mr O’Callaghan, who was speaking on Radio 6PR this morning about the campaign by The West Australian to address the issue of problem families, said more children needed to be removed.

“Every time I’ve come out in the paper over the past few years and said we should lower the threshold, some of the most prominent people around Perth jump up and say that you’re advocating another stolen generation,” he said.

“These kids are already having their lives stolen.

“Any chance they’ve got of being normal community members is being stolen already.

“I don’t buy this bulls..t about stolen generation by by dropping the threshold and saving these kids from these sorts of situations you describe.”

Mr O’Callaghan said sometimes children might only need to be removed temporarily while social workers and others helped the families addressed their issues.

“I’ve been arguing for some time that the threshold should be lowered for kids to be taken away and put into some kind of out-of-home care,” he said.

“Only the most extreme cases happen now but there is another level down where there are kids at risk and if you talk to child protection workers, which I do, they will tell you there’s a whole bundle of kids out there who should not be at home and they don’t have a capacity to move them out of home.

“Now, whether people like to hear that or not, I don’t care, but that is the truth of it.

“The capacity is limited and the community are going to have to help with this if we’re going to resolve the situation.”

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Employees with enquiry relating to pay, entitlements or service history, contact the Department on 1800 796 026 and select Option 1.
General enquiries
All general enquiries including media and events only.
Victim Notification Registry
Victims seeking information about the perpetrator of the crime against them. This includes details about the offender's sentence, any escapes from custody and recapture, impending release dates and the results of any appeals against the sentence.
Webmaster
Website enquiries, its content, technical issues or finding information on the website.
For a complete list of the Department's business areas and contact details, refer to the business contacts page.
Complaints, compliments or suggestions
The Department welcomes all comments about its services. If you wish to compliment us on our service, suggest how we might improve our service, or if not satisfied with our service or a decision made by the Department, we encourage you to let us know by:
Telephone: 1300 306 922 (toll free), Facsimile: +61 8 9264 1748
Post: (not for general enquiries) Private and Confidential - ACCESS
Manager, Complaints Administration
Department of Corrective Services
PO Box Z5124, St Georges Terrace, PERTH WA 6831
Online form: Please use our online form.
Taking the complaints further
The public can also make complaints about the Department of Corrective Services to other government agencies:
Ombudsman of Western Australia
For reviews of our administrative actions.
Telephone: 9220 7555
Web: www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au 
Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia
To report unethical or improper conduct by Department staff.
Telephone: 1800 809 000
Web: www.ccc.wa.gov.au 
The Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services
An independent statutory body that examines standards and operational practices of custodial services in Western Australia.
Telephone: 6551 4200
Web: www.custodialinspector.wa.gov.au
Prison locations
The Department of Corrective Services (DCS) manages more than 5,000 adults at 14 public prisons and 2 private prisons in Western Australia.
Our prisons extend from Derby in the State's north, Kalgoorlie to the east, and Albany to the south, providing services in both metropolitan and regional areas.
Our prisons are extremely diverse and include minimum, medium and maximum security facilities for men and women.
Prison locations
Acacia Prison
Albany Regional Prison
Bandyup Women's Prison
Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women
Broome Regional Prison
Bunbury Regional Prison
Casuarina Prison
Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison
Greenough Regional Prison
Hakea Prison
Karnet Prison Farm
Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility
Pardelup Prison Farm
Roebourne Regional Prison
Wandoo Reintegration Facility
West Kimberley Regional Prison
Wooroloo Prison Farm
Prisoner transport
Visiting prisons

Acacia Prison

http://www.guymerbailey.com.au/prisons-and-justice-architect-design/acacia-prison

Guymer Bailey Architects partnered Peter Hunt Architects in Perth in a successful design, construct and operate bid tendered by the Western Australian government to create the State’s first privately operated prison.
The brief was to design and build a medium security correctional facility with a 750 bed capacity, master planned to expand to 1100 beds. The design incorporates secure accommodation, a gate house, visitors’ centre, medical centre, as well as special care, geriatric, educational and spiritual amenities. Also available in the Acacia Prison Architecture is a range of vocational training resources and the supportive administration facilities.
Guymer Bailey’s design focus was to create a prison environment to be as much a normal community as possible or, in other words, an appropriate environment for rehabilitation coupled with personal development and improvement programs. The education and training facilities are crucial to improve employment opportunities on release from custody. Therefore, Acacia Prison functions in an open-campus layout with landscaped gardens and structures designed with differing cultural groups in mind. The open plan allows significant freedom of movement within the secure perimeter allowing prisoners to move around the campus using smart card technology, so as to promote their on-going confidence and responsibility.
The accommodation is separated into three levels of security classifications, each allowing varying degrees of privileges. Levels 1 and 2 accommodation are high and medium secure cell blocks. Level 3 accommodates 168 prisoners housed in six bed residential style self-care units clustered around recreational facilities.
CLIENT: AIMS
LOCATION: Wooroloo, WA
PROJECT TEAM: Guymer Bailey Architects & Peter Hunt Architect
Photography by: Peter Hunt Architect & Guymer Bailey Architects
http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/acacia.aspx
Acacia Prison is one of 2 privately-managed prisons in Western Australia. The prison is owned by the Department of Corrective Services which contracts management of the prison to an external service provider - Serco.
Acacia's open-plan, campus-style design means prisoners can move around within the complex fairly freely. Prisoners use 'smart card' technology to move within the prison, access their bank accounts and buy goods from the canteen.
Acacia's focus is on rehabilitation and it has a number of industries prisoners can work in including metal work and wood work.
Fast facts
Opened: May 2001
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Medium
Total capacity:
(as at 16 January 2017) 1513
Location: 54.6 km east of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9573 3300 and select option 1
Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 11.30 am and 12.30 pm to 3.00 pm
Friday visit bookings close Thursday 11.30 am
Saturday bookings close Friday 11.30 am
Sunday bookings close Friday 3.00 pm
The number of visitors per visit is limited to 6 with a maximum of 3 adults.
Visiting times
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday: 8.00 am to 9.15 am, 9.45 am to 11.15 am, 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm, 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm
Protection only visits: Monday 9.45 am, Saturday 1.00 pm, Sunday 8.00 am
All other visits are Mainstream.
Getting there
A free bus service is available from Midland Train Station on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The bus service must be booked when the visit is booked as seats are limited.
Buses leave Midland Train Station on: Friday at 7.15 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm, Saturday at 7.00 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm, Sunday at 7.15 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm, Monday at 7.15 am, 8.45 am and 2.00 pm
There are no public transport services to the prison.
Cashier
The cashier is available Monday to Sunday 8.00 am to 11.30 am and 12.30 pm to 3.00 pm, except public holidays.
Cash and EFTPOS available.
Contact details: Acacia Prison, Great Eastern Highway, WOOROLOO WA 6558
Telephone: +61 8 9573 3300, Facsimile: +61 8 9573 3350
Postal address: Acacia Prison, Locked Bag 1, WOOROLOO WA 6558

Albany Regional Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/albany.aspx

Albany Regional Prison is the only maximum-security prison outside of Perth.
It also manages medium- and minimum-security prisoners and holds a significant number of long-term prisoners.
Prisoners can work in the metal, carpentry, textiles or furniture upholstery workshops, or work as cooks, gardeners or cleaners.
Fast facts
Opened: September 1966
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Maximum, medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 510
Location: 8 km west of Albany, 414 km south of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be made 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9842 4466
between 8.30 am to 11.30 am and 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm
from Monday to Friday only.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit. No children on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoons.
Visiting times
Monday to Friday: 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm
Weekends and public holidays: 9.00 am to 11.00 am and 1.00 pm to 3.30 pm
No visits on Christmas Day.
Getting there
Albany Regional Prison is accessible by car on Princess Avenue. Refer to Transwa for public transport options.
Contact details
Albany Regional Prison, Princess Avenue, ALBANY WA 6330
Telephone: +61 8 9842 4444, Facsimile: +61 8 9842 4496
Postal address: Albany Regional Prison, Locked Bag 2, ALBANY WA 6331

Bandyup Women's Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/bandyup.aspx

Bandyup Women's Prison is the only female prison in Western Australia that caters for all security classifications. It holds women on remand who are waiting to appear in court, assesses newly-sentenced prisoners, and manages women who are serving their sentences. A mother and baby unit means babies up to the age of 12 months can live with their mothers, if it is decided it is in the child's best interests.
Bandyup provides prisoners with work and other prison-based opportunities and activities, including self-development and therapeutic programs. Women are rewarded for demonstrating a keen work ethic and effort.
Fast facts
Opened: January 1970
Gender of population: Female
Security level: Maximum, medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 394
Location: 22 km north-east of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be made 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9374 8710
between 8.00 am to 12.00 pm and 12.30 pm to 4.00 pm
from Monday to Friday.
A maximum of 3 adults and 3 children per visit.
Visiting times for sentenced prisoners
Monday to Friday: 2.45 pm to 3.45 pm and 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Weekends and public holidays:
8.45 am to 9.45 am
10.00 am to 11.00 am
1.30 pm to 2.30 pm
2.45 pm to 3.45 pm
4.00 pm to 5.00 pm.
Visiting times - remand only


Monday, Wednesday and Friday:
1.30 pm to 2.30 pm
2.45 pm to 3.45 pm
4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Tuesday and Thursday:
2.45 pm to 3.45 pm
4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Weekends and public holidays:
8.45 am to 9.45 am
10.00 am to 11.00 am
1.30 pm to 2.30 pm
2.45 pm to 3.45 pm
4.00 pm to 5.00 pm.
Note: There are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
Bandyup Women's Prison is accessible by car from Middle Swan Road. Refer to Transperth for public transport options.
On Saturday and Sunday a bus service from the Midland train station is available. Visitors are required to be at the train station by 2.00 pm to catch the free bus to Bandyup Women's Prison at 2.15 pm for the 2.45 pm visit session.
Contact details
Bandyup Women's Prison, 95 Middle Swan Road, WEST SWAN WA 6055
Telephone: +61 8 9374 8700, Facsimile: +61 8 9274 3134
Postal Address: Bandyup Women's Prison, PO Box 100, GUILDFORD WA 6935

Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women
http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/boronia.aspx

Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women
More information
Visiting prisons
Visits - FAQs
Boronia Pre-release Centre for Women manages minimum-security female prisoners and their children in a community-style setting, and adopts a forward-looking model that recognises the diverse needs of women in prison. Read Boronia's Guiding Philosophy (PDF 56 KB).
Boronia prepares women for re-entry into the community by offering meaningful rehabilitation activities and work placements. These are designed to address the unique needs of women prisoners and provide them with practical skills.
Women can enrol in traineeships in areas such as hospitality through the centre's hospitality and catering program, horticulture, retail operations, asset management and retail supervision. They also take part in valuable work in the local community for businesses and not-for-profit organisations.
Boronia has a strong focus on maintaining links with the local community through their affiliation with the Community Engagement and Advisory Group (CEAG) who provides community input, feedback and involvement into the centre's operations. To view this year's CEAG meeting schedule download the attachments below. To obtain a copy of the latest meeting minutes or for more information about the CEAG contact Boronia Pre-release centre. To become a member, download the application form and information below.
Fast facts
Opened: May 2004
Gender of population: Female
Security level: Minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 95
Location: Bentley, 9 km from Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9212 3600
by Thursday before 9.00 pm
A maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit.
Visiting times
Weekends: 9.30 am to 11.30 am, 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm.
Getting there
Visitors can catch buses 72 and 75 from Perth Esplanade Bus Port. The bus stops right outside the prison. Refer to Transperth for more public transport options.
Contact details
Boronia Pre-Release Centre for Women
14-16 Hayman Road, BENTLEY WA 6102
Telephone: +61 8 9212 3600, Facsimile: +61 8 9212 3515

Broome Regional Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/broome.aspx

Broome Regional Prison manages male and female prisoners of all security ratings from across the Kimberley region. It manages a high percentage of Aboriginal prisoners and is the oldest prison in the State.
Broome focuses on education and vocational training and offers employment for prisoners including supervised community work outside or within the prison, domestic duties and workshop maintenance. Prisoners can attend the local TAFE college for rural skills and construction training.
The prison also manages the Wyndham Work Camp.
Fast facts
Opened: February 1945
Gender of population: Male and female
Security level: Maximum, medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 117
Work camp capacity: 40
Location: Broome, West Kimberley, 2174 km north of Perth
Visiting
For visits information phone +61 8 9193 8500.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit.
Visiting times for maximum and medium security
Daily: 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Visiting times for minimum security
Monday to Friday: 2.30 pm to 5.00 pm
Weekends and public holidays: 12.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Note: There are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
Visitors can catch the bus from Cable Beach. The closest stops to the prison are Mangoes Hotel and Carnarvon Street. Both stops are behind the prison. Refer to Transwa for more public transport options.
Contact details
Broome Regional Prison, Hamersley Street, BROOME WA 6725
Telephone: +61 8 9193 8500, Facsimile: +61 8 9192 1532
Postal Address: Broome Regional Prison , PO Box 83, BROOME WA 6725

Bunbury Regional Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/bunbury.aspx

Bunbury Regional Prison is a multi-security prison that includes a short-term maximum-security section for people remanded in custody or prisoners who have to appear in court in the South West.
The prison also has a minimum-security, self-contained unit separate from the main prison where prisoners are responsible for managing their own cooking, cleaning, laundry and other aspects of daily life.
As part of a State-wide prisoner community work program, a number of prisoners at Bunbury assist with working on community projects throughout the South-West region.
Bunbury's focus is on self-sufficiency and a major feature of the prison is a market garden which supplies a large proportion of the fresh vegetables used throughout WA's prison system. It is the major employer of minimum-security prisoners and offsets the cost of managing prisons in the State.
Fast facts
Opened: February 1971
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Maximum (remand only), medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 347
Location: 11 km south of Bunbury, 183 km south of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9795 5074
between 9.30 am to 11.30 am and 12.30 pm to 3.30 pm
weekdays only.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit and as many children registered with guardian.
Visiting times
everyday including public holidays (except Friday):
9.30 am to 11.30 am
12.45 pm to 2.45 pm
adults only on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings.
Visiting times for pre-release only
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays:
9.30 am to 11.30 am, 12.45 pm to 2.45 pm
Adults only on Saturday mornings: 9.30 am to 11.30 am
Note: There are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
A prison bus service is available on Thursday. Buses depart from the Town Bus Station at 12.15 pm and the train station at 12.30 pm. Refer to Transwa for more public transport options.
Contact details
Bunbury Regional Prison, Centenary Road, BUNBURY WA 6230
Telephone: +61 8 9795 2155, Facsimile: +61 8 9795 7191
Postal address: Bunbury Regional Prison, PO Box 444, BUNBURY WA 6230

Casuarina Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/casuarina.aspx

Casuarina Prison is the main maximum-security prison for male prisoners - particularly long-term prisoners - in Western Australia. Surrounded by a range of state-of-the-art security devices, the prison has a special unit for intensive, high-security supervision of offenders.
The prison operates the State's biggest infirmary which is about the same size as a small country hospital.
It also has a variety of workshops where prisoners can learn metal fabrication, cabinet making, boot and shoe manufacturing, printing, baking and making concrete products.
Fast facts
Opened: June 1991
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Maximum, medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 23 January 2015) 1032
Location: 34.9 km south of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9411 5579
from 8.30 am to 4.00 pm
Monday to Friday only.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit.
Visiting times
Monday to Friday, 8.45am to 9.45am, 10.00am to 11.00am
1.45 pm to 2.45 pm, 4.15 pm to 5.15 pm
Weekends and public holidays
8.45 am to 9.45 am, 10.00 am to 11.00 am, 11.15 am to 12.15 pm
1.30 pm to 2.30 pm, 2.45 pm to 3.45 pm, 4.00 pm to 5.00 pm.
Note: There are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
A prison bus service runs from Kwinana Train Station on Tuesdays and Thursdays, departing Kwinana Train Station at 3.45 pm and leaving Casuarina Prison at 5.40 pm. On weekends the service departs Kwinana Train Station at 1.00 pm and leaves Casuarina Prison at 2.45 pm and 4.00 pm.  Refer to Transperth for more public transport options.

Contact details

Casuarina Prison, 288 Orton Road, CASUARINA WA 6167
Telephone: +61 8 9411 5333
Visit booking appointment: +61 8 9411 5579
Facsimile: +61 8 9411 5522
Postal address: Casuarina Prison, Locked Bag No 1, Kwinana Post Office
KWINANA WA 6167

Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison
http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/eastern-goldfields.aspx

Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison is a new modern medium security facility that has the capacity to manage maximum security male and female prisoners where required. This is generally to allow for visits or court appearances in the Goldfields.
The new prison commenced operations in August 2016. The prison manages a high percentage of Aboriginal prisoners.
The prison will focus on delivering rehabilitative programs that help prisoners address issues relevant to their offending behaviours.
Fast facts
Opened: August 2016
Gender of population: Male and female
Security level: Maximum, medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 16 January 2017) 367
Work camp capacity: 30
Location: Kalgoorlie-Boulder, 596 km east of Perth
Visiting
All visits are by appointment and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9093 5100
between 11.00 am to 12.00 pm and 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm
Monday to Friday only
Maximum of 3 adults per prisoner per visit.
Visiting times - sentenced prisoners
Weekends and public holidays: 9.15 am to 11.30 am and 1.30 pm to 3.45 pm
Visiting times - remand prisoners
Monday to Friday: 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Weekends and public holidays: 9.15 am to 11.30 am and 1.30 pm to 3.45 pm
Note: There are no visits on Christmas Day and Good Friday.
Getting there
Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison is accessible by car or foot. The prison is 5 km from the town centre on Vivian Street in Boulder. Refer to Transwa for more public transport options.
Contact details
Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison,Vivian Street, BOULDER WA 6432
Telephone: +61 8 9093 5100, Facsimile: +61 8 9093 1056
Postal address: Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison, PO Box 434. KALGOORLIE WA 6430

Greenough Regional Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/greenough.aspx

Greenough Regional Prison manages prisoners from throughout the Midwest region, extending from Exmouth in the north to Moora in the south, and east as far as Wiluna.
The prison manages a high percentage of Aboriginal prisoners as well as up to 69 female prisoners. A minimum-security facility at the front of the prison houses up to 56 male prisoners.
Greenough's focus is on prison industries and produces around 5000 meals and handles around 10,000 kilograms of laundry per week.
Fast facts
Opened: October 1984
Gender of population: Male and female
Security level: Maximum (remand), medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 17 April 2015) 332
Location: 16 km south of Geraldton, 420 km north of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be made 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone 1800 680 807 (free call)
between 9.00 am to 12.00 pm weekdays.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit and no more than 6 individuals per visit.
Visiting times
Monday to Friday:  4.00 pm to 5.00 pm
Weekends and public holidays: 9.30 am to 10.30 am, 10.45 am to 11.45 am
1.00 pm to 2.00 pm, 2.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Note: There are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Contact details
Greenough Regional Prison, Edward Road, NARNGULU WA 6532
Telephone: +61 8 9923 6500, Facsimile: +61 8 9923 3725
Postal address: Greenough Regional Prison, PO Box 4108, Rangeway, GERALDTON WA 6531

Hakea Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/hakea.aspx

Hakea Prison manages male prisoners who have been remanded in custody while waiting to appear in court or those who have just been sentenced.
Newly-sentenced prisoners are assessed at Hakea Prison before being placed at other WA prisons.
A 15-bed crisis-care facility at Hakea serves the needs of a small group of acute and, at times, chronic 'at risk' offenders who need specialised treatment and support interventions.
Hakea has a self-care block designed mainly for long-term prisoners. It allows selected prisoners to cook and clean for themselves.
Hakea's focus is on rehabilitation and employs prisoners in a number of areas including laundry, carpentry, concreting and other domestic duties.
Fast facts
Opened: June 1982
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Maximum, medium, minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 1225
Location: 19 km south of Perth
Visiting
Social visits (eg Family, relatives, friends)
All visits by appointment only and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9366 6299
between 8.30 am to 4.15 pm
Monday to Friday only.
Maximum of 3 adults and 4 children at one time per visit.
Social visiting times: Daily - except Wednesday mornings
8.30 am to 9.30 am, 10.00 am to 11.00 am, 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm, 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm.
Official visits (eg Police, legal practitioners, government representatives)
All visits by appointment only and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9366 6429
between 8.30 am to 4.30 pm
Monday to Friday only.
Official visiting times
Monday to Friday only: 8.30 am to 3.30 pm
hakea prison - where to report for visitsTo avoid delay, visitors are advised to arrive at Hakea Prison 40 minutes prior to their scheduled visit and report to the Outcare building located opposite the prison Front Gate.
Note: There are no visits on Wednesday mornings. No visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day. Refer to Transperth for public transport options.
Outcare
Outcare assists in the processing and welcoming of visitors to Hakea Prison. It is a Community and Re-entry Link Service for sentenced and remand prisoners and sometimes the family of prisoners. Primarily Outcare provides case management support to prisoners 6 months pre-release and 12 months post release. The case manager work one on one with their clients to reduce their risks of re-offending.
Outcare re-entry can assist with the following range of supports:
budgeting skills
employment, education and training support
family support
financial assistance
housing
life skills
parole support
practical and emotional support
referrals to other support agencies.
For more information and further support services contact:
Outcare Incorporated
27 Moore Street
EAST PERTH, WA
Telephone: +61 8 6263 8266
Contact details
Hakea Prison, Nicholson Road, CANNING VALE WA 6155
Telephone: +61 8 9366 6333, Facsimile: +61 8 9366 6464
Postal address: Hakea Prison, Locked Bag 111, CANNING VALE WA 6970

Karnet Prison Farm

Karnet Prison Farm

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/karnet.aspx

Karnet Prison Farm plays a vital role in the prison system, providing work for minimum-security prisoners. It produces food including milk, meat and eggs for the State's prisons.
Karnet focuses on preparing prisoners for successful re-entry into the community when they are released, giving them job skills linked to agricultural production. The prison breeds cattle and sheep and has an abattoir, a dairy, poultry farm, market gardens and an orchard.
As part of a state-wide prisoner community work program, the prison is closely associated with the Community Liaison Group (CLG). For more information about the CLG or to become a member, refer to the application form and information package below or contact Karnet Prison farm.
Fast facts
Opened: March 1963
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 328
Location: 16 km from Serpentine, 78.5 km south of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked by Thursday 3.00 pm.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time is allowed for each prisoner visit. Children visiting with adults must use the phone booking option only.
To book an appointment:
phone +61 8 9526 3205 between 9.00 am - 11.00 am and 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm on Monday to Thursday only. Your appointment will be confirmed over the phone. 
or
complete the online visitors booking form. You will be contacted if your visit is not approved. Child visits not accepted using the online booking form.
Note: All online visitors booking must be submitted by Thursday 3.00 pm for the coming weekend visits. Booking made after Thursday 3.00 pm, will not be accepted or approved for the coming weekend. Any booking made on the same day of the visit day, will not be accepted or approved.
Visiting times
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
8.45 am to 10.45 am, 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm
Contact details: Karnet Prison Farm, Kingsbury Drive, via SERPENTINE WA 6125
Telephone: +61 8 9526 3200, Facsimile: +61 8 9525 2665
Postal address: Karnet Prison Farm, PO Box 22, SERPENTINE WA 6125

Karnet Prison Farm plays a vital role in the prison system, providing work for minimum-security prisoners. It produces food including milk, meat and eggs for the State's prisons.
Karnet focuses on preparing prisoners for successful re-entry into the community when they are released, giving them job skills linked to agricultural production. The prison breeds cattle and sheep and has an abattoir, a dairy, poultry farm, market gardens and an orchard.
As part of a state-wide prisoner community work program, the prison is closely associated with the Community Liaison Group (CLG). For more information about the CLG or to become a member, refer to the application form and information package below or contact Karnet Prison farm.
Fast facts
Opened: March 1963
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 328
Location: 16 km from Serpentine, 78.5 km south of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked by Thursday 3.00 pm.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time is allowed for each prisoner visit. Children visiting with adults must use the phone booking option only.
To book an appointment:
phone +61 8 9526 3205 between 9.00 am - 11.00 am and 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm on Monday to Thursday only. Your appointment will be confirmed over the phone. 
or
complete the online visitors booking form. You will be contacted if your visit is not approved. Child visits not accepted using the online booking form.
Note: All online visitors booking must be submitted by Thursday 3.00 pm for the coming weekend visits. Booking made after Thursday 3.00 pm, will not be accepted or approved for the coming weekend. Any booking made on the same day of the visit day, will not be accepted or approved.

Visiting times
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays
8.45 am to 10.45 am, 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm

Contact details
 Karnet Prison Farm, Kingsbury Drive, via SERPENTINE WA 6125
Telephone: +61 8 9526 3200, Facsimile: +61 8 9525 2665
Postal address: Karnet Prison Farm, PO Box 22, SERPENTINE WA 6125

Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/Prisons/prison-locations/melaleuca.aspx

Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility (Melaleuca) is one of three privately-managed prisons in Western Australia. The prison is owned by the Department of Corrective Services and is operated by a private service provider – Sodexo.
Services at Melaleuca have been developed to meet the specific needs of female offenders. They are based on the philosophy that any contact with the corrective services system is an opportunity to link women with support that will strengthen their capacity to live stable and productive lives and reduce their likelihood of reoffending.
The contract provides for delivery of a suite of services aimed at assisting women to integrate back into the community and avoid future contact with the justice system. Services will focus on:
reducing reoffending
fine diversion
early release
accessing substance abuse treatment
secure accommodation
education and training.
Melaleuca will focus on the distinct needs of women on remand, as well as women approaching the end of their sentence and preparing for release.
Staff at Melaleuca will help women to adjust and cope with the pressures of incarceration, especially during the stressful period of initial imprisonment. An interview and assessment will be held with women at reception to develop a plan for their care. Women will be assigned a dedicated ‘Personal Officer’ who will work with them to provide interventions and links with specialist support providers to address offending behaviours and their underlying causes.
Reintegration and through care
A 'through care' model will ensure that women receive support and assistance to prepare for their release, and that they continue to be linked to support services after they re-join the community. Support will cover access to secure housing, education, training and employment opportunities, health services, drug and alcohol treatment, financial management and family and behavioural support.
Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility
Fast facts
Opened: December 2016
Gender of population: Female
Security level: Maximum
Total capacity: 254
Location: 19 km south of Perth
Visiting
Information below is valid until further notice.
Social visits (eg. family, relatives, friends)
All visits by appointment only and must be made 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment: phone +61 8 6258 0254
between 9:00am to 11:30am and 1:15pm to 4:45pm
Monday to Sunday
Maximum of 3 adults and 3 children at one time per visit.
Visits will normally be one hour in length
Social Visits - visiting times
Monday to Sunday: 9:00am to 11:30am, 1:15pm to 4:45pm
To avoid delay, visitors are advised to arrive at Melaleuca 30 minutes prior to their scheduled visit and report to the Visitors Centre building located opposite the prison Front Gate. (Picture Attached)
Official visits (eg Police, legal practitioners, government representatives)
All visits by appointment only and must be made 24 hours in advance..
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 6258 0254
between 9:00am to 11:30am and 1:15pm to 4:45pm
Official Visits - visiting times
Monday to Friday
9:00am to 12:00pm and 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Note:  - There are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Refer to the Transperth website for public transport options.
Contact details
Melaleuca Remand and Reintegration Facility
Nicholson Road
CANNING VALE WA 6155
Telephone: +61 8 6258 0205
Postal address: PO Box 109, WELSHPOOL WA 6986

Pardelup Prison Farm

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/pardelup.aspx

Pardelup Prison Farm is a minimum-security prison located on a 26 square kilometre mixed-farming operation near Mt Barker, 386 kilometres south-west of Perth.
Pardelup is a working farm, which focuses on breeding cattle and sheep for internal consumption by the prison population within Western Australia.
It plays a vital role in the prison system, providing constructive work for minimum-security prisoners re-integrating into the community.
Pardelup Prison Farm was initially opened in 1927. Following a successful community consultation in June 2002, Pardelup Prison Farm was converted into a work camp housing approximately 12 minimum-security prisoners.
Pardelup reopened as a prison farm in February 2010 due to the increase in the State's prison population.
Fast facts
Opened: 1927
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 85
Work camp capacity: 12
Location: 386 km south-west of Perth
Visiting
All weekend visits must be booked by 4.00 pm on the preceding Thursday.
To make an appointment, phone +61 8 9851 3715 between 8.15 am to 11.30 am and 1.00 pm to 4.00 pm - Monday to Friday. Note: phone is unattended for short periods while staff are attending to other duties.
Maximum of 3 adults at one time per visit.
Visiting times
Weekends and public holidays: 9.00 am to 2.00 pm
Note: There are no visits on Good Friday Christmas Day.
Getting there
Pardelup Prison Farm is accessible by car on Muirs Highway.
Contact details
Pardelup Prison Farm, Muirs Hwy, Mt Barker WA 6324
Telephone: +61 8 9851 370, Facsimile: +61 8 9851 3721
Postal address:, Pardelup Prison Farm, PO Box 56, MT BARKER WA 6324

Roebourne Regional Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/roebourne.aspx

Roebourne Regional Prison manages prisoners from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. Originally a minimum-security facility, it was upgraded in 1995 to a medium-security rating. The prison manages a high percentage of Aboriginal prisoners.
Prisoners at Roebourne are required to work or study. Trade and workshop skills are an important part of vocational training available. The education curriculum aims to provide prisoners with skills which will help them get a job when released.
Fast facts
Opened: March 1984
Gender of population: Male and female
Security level: Maximum (short-term), medium and minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 174
Location: 5 km from Roebourne, 1572 km north of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9182 0100
between 10.30 am to 11.30 am
Monday to Friday only.
Maximum of 3 adults and 3 children at one time per visit.
Visiting time for sentences prisoners
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 1.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Visiting times for remand/appeal classified prisoners
Monday to Thursday: 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 1.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Note: there are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
Roebourne Prison is accessible by car on Sampson Road. Refer to Transwa for public transport options.
Contact details
Roebourne Regional Prison, Sampson Road, ROEBOURNE WA 6718
Telephone: +61 8 9182 0100, Facsimile: +61 8 9182 0171
Postal address: Roebourne Regional Prison, PO Box 21, ROEBOURNE WA 6718
Roebourne Regional Prison manages prisoners from the Pilbara and Kimberley regions. Originally a minimum-security facility, it was upgraded in 1995 to a medium-security rating. The prison manages a high percentage of Aboriginal prisoners.
Prisoners at Roebourne are required to work or study. Trade and workshop skills are an important part of vocational training available. The education curriculum aims to provide prisoners with skills which will help them get a job when released.
Fast facts
Opened: March 1984
Gender of population: Male and female
Security level: Maximum (short-term), medium and minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 174
Location: 5 km from Roebourne, 1572 km north of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked 24 hours in advance.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9182 0100
between 10.30 am to 11.30 am
Monday to Friday only.
Maximum of 3 adults and 3 children at one time per visit.
Visiting time for sentences prisoners
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 1.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Visiting times for remand/appeal classified prisoners
Monday to Thursday: 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm
Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays: 1.15 pm to 3.15 pm
Note: there are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
Roebourne Prison is accessible by car on Sampson Road. Refer to Transwa for public transport options.
Contact details
Roebourne Regional Prison
Sampson Road, ROEBOURNE WA 6718
Telephone: +61 8 9182 0100, Facsimile: +61 8 9182 0171
Postal address:  Roebourne Regional Prison, PO Box 21, ROEBOURNE WA 6718

Wandoo Reintegration Facility

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/wandoo-reintegration-facility.aspx

Wandoo Reintegration Facility is a minimum security prison for young men aged 18 - 28. It is the first prison in Western Australia that caters to the unique needs of this age group.
The focus at Wandoo is on preparing offenders for release by providing them with life skills, education and training, and employment opportunities. Wandoo works closely with the not for profit sector which provides services that assist offenders with their transition back into the community, once their sentence is served.
Wandoo is 1 of 2 privately managed prisons in WA, with Acacia medium security prison being the other.  Both are managed by Serco Australia.
Fast facts
Opened: November 2012
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 80
Location: 12 km south of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9218 7901
between 8.30 am to 4.00 pm Monday to Thursday and 8.30 am to 3.00 pm Friday
The number of visitors per visit is limited to 3 adults and 3 children per resident.
Appointments (including amendments to existing bookings) must be made at least 48 hours before a visit.
Friday: 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm - Earned Privilege status only
Saturday and Sunday: 9.30 am to 11.00 am. 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm. 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm
Getting there
Wandoo is located 1 kilometre south of the Murdoch Drive and South Street intersection (behind St John of God Hospital). Visitors can reach the facility by car, train or bus.
Drive - Wandoo is located on the corner of Murdoch Drive and Bramanti Road in Murdoch. Exit the Kwinana Freeway at South Street or Farrington Road exits.
Train - Wandoo is 2.4 km from the Murdoch Train Station (about a 25 minute walk).
Bus - Refer to the Transperth website for more public transport options.
Cashier
The cashier is only available on visit days. Cash for residents can be provided on visit days, maximum $200, otherwise a money order can be sent directly through the mail as per the postal address below.
Contact details
Wandoo Reintegration Facility, Corner Bramanti Road and Murdoch Drive, MURDOCH WA 6150
Telephone: +61 8 9218 7901, Facsimile: +61 8 9313 7621
Postal address: Wandoo Reintegration Facility, Locked Bag 1, BULLCREEK WA 6150

West Kimberley Regional Prison

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/west-kimberley.aspx

This state-of-the-art facility was opened in the West Kimberley, near Derby, on 1 November 2012.
Located south of the Gibb River Road and the Derby Highway intersection, the prison offers many firsts across Australia, with a design and operating philosophy premised upon Aboriginal cultures and values as far as is possible. Its philosophy (PDF 73 KB) includes recognition and acceptance of cultural, kinship, family and community responsibilities as well as spiritual connection to land.
West Kimberley Regional Prison (WKRP) is designed to house 120 male and 30 female prisoners in self-care units. The 22 houses on site accommodate 6 to 7 prisoners each. In keeping with the prison philosophy, the houses are grouped so that prisoners can be located according to family ties or language, as well as security rating.
The facility has a structured day program with an emphasis on supporting prisoners to develop life, work and decision-making skills to build self-esteem and the abilities necessary for self-determination.
All aspects of WKRP have been developed to ensure community, staff and prisoner safety is paramount.
Fast facts
Gender of population: Male and female (housed separately)
Security level: Medium and minimum
Total capacity:
(as at 21 October 2015) 168
Location: West Kimberley, 2240 km north of Perth
Contact details
West Kimberley Regional Prison
Department of Corrective Services
Lot 500 Derby Highway, DERBY WA 6728
Telephone: +61 8 9161 6000, Facsimile: +61 8 9161 6161
Postal address: PO Box 350, DERBY  WA  6728
Related information
West Kimberley Regional Prison – the philosophy (PDF 73 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – August 2012 (PDF 346 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – July 2012 (PDF 408 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – June 2012 (PDF 582 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – May 2012 (PDF 564 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – April 2012 (PDF 715 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – March 2012 (PDF 391 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – February 2012 (PDF 649 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – January 2012 (PDF 545 KB)
West Kimberley Regional Prison News – December 2011 (PDF 893 KB)

Wooroloo Prison Farm

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/wooroloo/default.aspx

Wooroloo Prison Farm is a minimum-security prison. Approved prisoners are able to work under supervision in the local community and are involved in reforestation and environmental programs, training at local businesses and general community projects.
The prison's large industries complex produces goods for the prison system and for external contracts including prison food, offsetting some of the costs of prisoner management.
Prisoners are taught workshop skills and can take part in traineeships to help them find a job when they are released from prison.
Fast facts
Opened: 1972
Gender of population: Male
Security level: Minimum
Total capacity: (as at 21 October 2015) 365
Work camp capacity: 20
Location: 55 km east of Perth
Visiting
All visits by appointment only and must be booked by 3.00 pm Thursday.
To make an appointment:
phone +61 8 9573 3088
Monday to Thursday between 10.00 am to 12.00 pm and 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm.
Maximum of 3 adults and 5 children at one time per visit.
Visiting times
Weekends: 9.15 am to 11.15 am and 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Public holidays: 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Note: there are no visits on Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Getting there
A prison bus service is available on Sundays and public holidays. The bus departs from Midland Train Station at 8:30 am and 12.00 pm. Refer to Transperth for more public transport options.
Contact details
Wooroloo Prison Farm, Great Eastern Highway, WOOROLOO WA 6558
Telephone: +61 8 9573 3000, Facsimile: +61 8 9573 1113
Postal address: Wooroloo Prison Farm, PO Box 100, WOOROLOO WA 6558

Wooroloo Community Liaison Group

http://www.correctiveservices.wa.gov.au/prisons/prison-locations/wooroloo/wooroloo-clg.aspx

The group aims to increase and strengthen Wooroloo Prison Farm's commitment to the local community, as part of continuing developments at the prison farm.
Members of the group represent a cross-section of interests. While membership may change from time to time, individuals aim to represent local business, social, sport, educational, agriculture, cultural, volunteer, government, indigenous and community organisations.
CLG members welcome community feedback. They can also accept ideas for supervised community work projects undertaken by approved prisoners. The current members are:
Stephen Fox Wundowie Resource Centre Coordinator +61 8 9573 6205
Lisa Gibson Wooroloo Primary School principal +61 8 9573 1144
Joy Harding Bakers Hill Progress Association member +61 8 9574 0087
Kay Abel Mundaring Shire Community Development Officer +61 8 9290 6666
Criteria for membership of the group include:
live or work in the local area
show commitment to local issues
demonstrate relevant life and/or professional skills
represent the views of a local interest group and
be available to attend regular meetings at the prison farm.
For more information about the group, refer to the Prospective member's information kit and an Application form, or contact Wooroloo Prison Farm.
Further information on CLG
Community Liaison Group Application Form (PDF 93 KB)
Information for Applicants and Terms of Reference (PDF 48 KB)