A Manus Island detention centre guard says he described the facility as a “tinderbox ready to ignite” and expressed serious concerns about crime scene preservation training months before the disturbances that led to the death of an Iranian asylum seeker. A Senate inquiry is investigating events at the processing centre in January, which led to injuries for dozens of asylum seekers and the death of one, Reza Barati. The Papua New Guinea police are investigating the death but no charges have been laid at this stage. In one of the first submissions made public for the inquiry, Paul Skillen, who was employed as a supervisor at the facility until March, has submitted what appear to be emails to other G4S staff, outlining major concerns about training and crisis response procedures at the facility in November last year. In the submission, Skillen says staff with no supervisory experience, no knowledge of incident response training and limited leadership capabilities were placed in senior incident response roles. He is also critical of the training received by local contractors. theguardian/world/2014/apr/18/manus-detention-centre-was-tinderbox-ready-to-ignite-before-disturbance #TheStand
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:28:09 +0000
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