Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Escort services and courtroom custodial services

172: Security monitors

You could also call this:

"People who check if security workers are doing their job properly"

The chief executive must choose people to be security monitors under the Public Service Act 2020. You will be appointed as a security monitor for a particular security contractor. As a security monitor, you are responsible to the chief executive for checking if the security contractor is doing what they are supposed to do.

You must report to the chief executive every few months, or when you think it is necessary, on whether the security contractor is doing their job and following the rules. You will check if they are complying with their security contract, the Corrections Act, and any other instructions or guidelines.

You can also make recommendations to the chief executive about security contracts at any time you think it is necessary. The chief executive can combine the job of security monitor with another job if they think it will work.

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171: Reporting responsibilities, or

"Telling the boss about important security things"

173: Access must be given, or

"Letting security monitors check on prisoners and staff to keep everyone safe"

Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Escort services and courtroom custodial services

172Security monitors

The chief executive must appoint under the Public Service Act 2020 as many persons as security monitors as are required for the purposes of this Act and each person appointed as a security monitor must be appointed in respect of a particular security contractor.
The security monitor appointed in respect of that security contractor—
is responsible to the chief executive for the assessment and review of the carrying out, by that security contractor, of that contractor's obligations under the security contract; and
must report to the chief executive at the intervals (not exceeding 3 months) that the chief executive determines, and at any other time that the security monitor considers appropriate, on—
1. the carrying out, by that security contractor, of that contractor's obligations under the security contract; and
2. whether or not that security contractor is complying with that contractor's security contract and with the provisions of this Act, any regulations made under this Act, and any instructions issued under section 196 and is taking into account any guidelines issued under section 196.

Any security monitor may, at any time that he or she considers appropriate, make recommendations to the chief executive on any matters relating to security contracts that the monitor considers appropriate.
The office of security monitor may be combined with any other office, appointment, or position if the chief executive is satisfied that the duties of that other office, appointment, or position are not incompatible with the duties of a security monitor.

Compare

1954 No 51 s 36ZD

Notes

Section 172(1): amended, on 7 August 2020, by section 135 of the Public Service Act 2020 (2020 No 40).