![]() ![]() It uses intelligence, as well as sniffer dogs and metal detectors, to prevent unauthorised property entering correctional centres. Justice Minister Tony Kelly said Corrective Services officials had stepped up searches in the past year.Ī task force, known as ConTARG, has both covert and overt methods of operation. More than 60 dangerous weapons were seized, as well as 20 mobile phones and hundreds of litres of alcohol. Officers also found about 500 items of drug paraphernalia such as needles, syringes, alcohol wipes and tourniquets. Some had been stashed in tennis balls and thrown over prison fences. ![]() Searches uncovered drugs such as ecstasy, Valium, Viagra, LSD, morphine and ice. Inside the joggers were five packets of yellow tablets, a plastic bag containing crystals and a small plastic tube which contained drugs. Searches of prison visitors during 2006 uncovered about 800g of marijuana.Ī woman sewed drugs into her shoes and attempted to swap them with her son during a visit at the Parramatta CorrectionalCentre on October 15. ![]() It was found on the jail's perimeter during a routine search by guards. Visitors went to extraordinary lengths to smuggle contraband into NSW prisons last year.īut those plans were thwarted by prison guards, metal detectors and dog squads in a crackdown on prohibited goods.Īs a result, 861 visitors were banned last year from visiting any of the State's 30 jails.Ī Corrective Services Department spokesman said one of the more bizarre methods was camouflaging packages in grass clippings and throwing them over jail walls.Īt Silverwater jail, a package containing two knives, cannabis and a Muslim pendant was rolled up in glad wrap, dipped in glue and rolled in grass clippings. A MOBILE phone concealed in a hollowed-out Bible, drugs sewn into the tongues of a pair of shoes and syringes hidden in a baby's nappy. ![]()
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