Officers Speak Out

Metropolitan Remand Centre & Dame Phyllis Frost Top List
Officers believe the violent incidents would reduce if a stronger message was sent earlier and a policy of zero tolerance was adopted and many expressed the view that the officer is made to feel that they are to blame.

Officers mostly queried the inappropriate classification of known violent prisoners and the easy access to potential weapons inside units.

CPSU has met with WorkSafe and Justice and tabled our survey responses and agreement has been reached to investigate these occupational violence issues under the auspices of WorkSafe.

Their is a climate of under-reporting and WorkSafe tabled their claims history data showing only about a quarter of incidents within jail walls led to a claim for compensation.

CPSU pointed out that this situation would now be exacerbated with the State Government changing the workers compensation laws to make it harder for workers suffering pyschological injuries like depression or stress to make a successful claim.

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http://www.cpsuvic.org/public_docs/PRBL-2704-OV-Survey-Outcomes.pdf

Thanks to all our members who participated in our survey on-line and provided all this valauble data that is now the basis for an ongoing project to address occupational violence in our prisons.

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CPSU - 125 in 2010.

When 1,000 colonial public servants crammed into the Athenaeum Hall in Collins Street on 17 June 1885 to form the Victorian Public Service Association they had no idea that we d be still here and turning 125 this year.

TOGETHER WE DO BETTER!

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KAREN BATT
CPSU Victorian Branch Secretary

Tuesday 27 April 2010