05. Detention Procedures

05.16. Staff and management are familiar with the detention processes and procedures and are able to provide necessary information to detainees as to their status and rights.

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05.17. Staff and management understand and acknowledge the non-criminal status of immigration detainees.

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05.11. Periodic review and appeal processes are prompt, meaningful, enforceable and independent.

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05.12. Each detainee has ready access to a case liaison officer who is able to keep him/her well informed about progress on periodic review of detention and other detention-related appeal processes.

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05.13. Detainees receive timely individualised written reasons for all subsequent reviews of detention, which assess the continuing necessity, reasonableness and proportionality of detention and take into account changes in circumstances and new information.

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05.14. Detention is subject to strict time limits, and detainees are released if a prescribed maximum period of detention is reached.

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05.15. Immigration detainees have access to timely and effective remedies for breaches of established standards in the decision-making process (such as release, compensation, reparations, and measures to prevent recurrence).

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05.04. An immigration detainee’s attendance at interviews, review and appeal hearings is facilitated, as necessary, by the detaining authority and the staff of the place of detention.

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05.05. Immigration detainees receive individualised written reasons for the initial decision to detain them, which assesses the necessity, reasonableness and proportionality of detention in the individual case.

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05.06. Decisions to detain are made only after less coercive and intrusive alternatives have been found not to be suitable in the individual case and there is an effective package of alternatives available.

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