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Public Order

Psychological Services

Psychological services are provided to persons in custody to improve their psychological well- being and to change their offending behaviour. Clinical psychologists and trained officers provide special treatment programmes for sex offenders, violent offenders, offenders with drug addiction problems, and young persons and women in custody. They also provide assessment reports to the courts, review boards and institutional management on request. The CSD has adopted an empirically-based protocol and clinical measures for assessing the offender's risk of re-offending upon discharge.

Supervision Services

Statutory supervision is provided to young persons discharged from custody, people discharged from training, rehabilitation, detention and drug addiction treatment centres, those discharged under the Release Under Supervision, Pre-release Employment and Post-release Supervision schemes, and those discharged under a conditional release order or post-release supervision order. The aim of supervision is to help those supervised reintegrate into society. Any breach of the supervision conditions may result in recall for a further period of training, treatment or imprisonment. At the end of 2014, 2,169 persons were under active statutory supervision.

Community Support

Community acceptance and support are paramount to an offender's rehabilitation and reintegration into society. The Committee on Community Support for Rehabilitated Offenders is a non-statutory advisory body appointed by the Commissioner of Correctional Services to advise on rehabilitation programmes as well as strategies on reintegration and publicity. It comprises community leaders and professionals from various sectors and representatives of non-governmental organisations and government departments. The CSD also organises a variety of publicity activities to appeal for public support for rehabilitated offenders.

Information Technology and Management Services

The CSD continues to enhance the quality and efficiency of prison management and offender rehabilitation services through appropriate use of new technologies.

Visiting Justices

Justices of the Peace visit each penal institution fortnightly or monthly, depending on the type of facility. The Justices of the Peace receive and investigate complaints from persons in custody, inspect their diets and examine the living and working conditions in the facilities.

Quality Assurance

To uphold and continuously improve the department's service standards, CSD initiates enhancements through regular inspections and management studies.

Complaints

The Complaints Investigation Unit handles and investigates complaints in relation to the department's work. All investigation reports are scrutinised by the CSD Complaints Committee. Persons in custody may also lodge complaints with any CSD senior officer or duty officer, or

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