if a supervisee misbehaves or fails to comply
with the supervision conditions, the
Commissioner of Correctional Services is
l.c.
empowered by law to issue an order authorising
the recall of the supervised person for further
treatment or training. At present, as
Correctional Services Department officers on
aftercare duties have no power of arrest, they
are unable to execute recall orders on their
own. They have to call on the help of the
Police. This arrangement is unsatisfactory.
Police officers may not always be available to
spend many hours waiting for a supervised person
to turn up and they may not be familiar with the
identities of the supervised persons and where
they frequent. To facilitate the execution of
recall orders, it is proposed that Correctional
Services Department officers on aftercare duties
should be empowered to arrest supervised persons
who are the subject of recall orders and are
unlawfully at large.
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