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Parole Spies To Watch Ex-Crims


A SPY network of surveillance officers will monitor convicted criminals who have been released from jail on parole.
The 16 surveillance officers will target high-risk offenders under a new plan by the State Government.
The formation of a surveillance team was announced in last month's state Budget but new details released yesterday show some released offenders could be monitored for up to 24 hours, seven days a week.
All offenders on parole will face possible spot checks, surveillance and random drug tests by officers in a fleet of vans from August.
The surveillance officers might keep watch from a car near a parolee's home or do random doorknocks to question parolees about their compliance with release conditions or curfews.
A team of five Corrective Services intelligence officers will analyse the risks of parolees reoffending.
"The team of officers will target offenders with parole curfew conditions, leave-of-absence checks, random breath testing of parolees and monitoring," Premier Peter Beattie told The Sunday Mail yesterday.
He said Queensland would be the first state to introduce the network of intelligence officers in the community.
"It is about making it clear to offenders that they will be scrutinised while they are on community-based orders and if they slip up, will face going back to jail," Mr Beattie said.
Corrective Services Minister Judy Spence said the new intelligence officers would work closely with police and corrective services program staff.
She said their role was an extension of the work of existing intelligence officers within the jails who gathered information about prisoners at risk of causing trouble inside prisons.



The Sunday Mail (Qld) (25-06-2006)
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