Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify prisoner escort requirements.
- Check and confirm the requirements for escorts and organise resources and equipment according to escort plan and duty instructions.
- Identify special needs requiring additional resources, and make and report adjustments to escort plans.
- Ensure that all information relevant to the escort is gathered and made available to escort team.
- Provide clear, accurate information to prisoners to address concerns and problems and promote cooperation.
- Prepare prisoners for escort.
- Check and confirm the identification of all prisoners to be escorted against authorised information.
- Check and confirm prisoner property, files, security equipment and all resources needed to accompany prisoners.
- Confirm the classification and conditions of prisoners and note any special needs.
- Search prisoners according to procedures and taking account of prisoner's sex, health and safety requirements.
- Check and confirm transport vehicles, departure, receiving unit and location according to assignment requirements and escort plan.
- Advise relevant people of movements of prisoners and complete necessary records accurately and clearly.
- Apply restraint techniques according to assignment instructions and legal requirements.
- Support prisoner escort.