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Access to Corrective Services NSW policies and publications is available online.

Record Description of information that is not made publicly available Reasons for non-disclosure
Custodial Operations Policy and Procedures (COPPs) Information relating to matters including, but not limited to:
  • Security of correctional centres, personal searches, and searches of premises.
  • Cyber security and data storage.
  • Management and placement of inmates with high-risk classifications, extreme high security classifications, or extreme threat designations.
  • Mechanisms for managing and protecting transgender and intersex inmates.
  • Security protocols for inmate communications, finances, and requests.
  • Procedures for responding to incidents, including preservation of crimes scenes and gathering forensic evidence in correctional facilities, uses of force, erroneous release or unlawful detention of inmates, and discovery and disposal of drugs.
  • Procedures for internal movements of inmates and escorting inmates outside of secure areas of a correctional centre.
 Available online in redacted form on the basis of an overriding public interest against disclosure of parts of the document.Table to section 14(2) of the GIPA Act:
  • Clause 1(f): prejudice the effective exercise by an agency of the agency’s functions.
  • Clause 2(b): prejudice the prevention, detection or investigation of a contravention or possible contravention of the law or prejudice the enforcement of the law.
  • Clause 2(d): endanger, or prejudice any system or procedure for protecting, the life, health or safety of any person.
  • Clause 2(e): endanger the security of, or prejudice any system or procedure for protecting, any place, property or vehicle.
  • Clause 2(f): facilitate the commission of a criminal act.
  • Clause 2(g): prejudice the supervision of, or facilitate the escape of, any person in lawful custody.
  • Clause 2(h): prejudice the security, discipline or good order of any correctional facility.
Inmate Classification and Placement Policy and Procedures Manual
  • Contact information.
  • Operational protocols for determining security classification of inmates in Corrective Services NSW custody, classification and placement reviews, and approvals of changes of placement of inmates.
  • Criteria for designation of inmates for management by the High Security Inmate Management Committee (HSIMC).
 Available online in redacted form on the basis of an overriding public interest against disclosure of parts of the document.Table to section 14(2) of the GIPA Act:
  • Clause 1(f): prejudice the effective exercise by an agency of the agency’s functions.
  • Clause 2(d): endanger, or prejudice any system or procedure for protecting, the life, health or safety of any person.
  • Clause 2(e): endanger the security of, or prejudice any system or procedure for protecting, any place, property or vehicle.
  • Clause 2(g): prejudice the supervision of, or facilitate the escape of, any person in lawful custody.
  • Clause 2(h): prejudice the security, discipline or good order of any correctional facility.
Sentence Administration Manual Personal information. Available online in redacted form on the basis of an overriding public interest against disclosure of parts of the document.Table to section 14(2) of the GIPA Act:
  • Clause 3(a): reveal an individual’s personal information.
  • Clause 3(b): contravene an information protection principle under the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998.
Last updated:

05 Jul 2023