Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We are constantly looking for opportunities to enhance our compliance, both at headquarters level and prison level. Some issues were identified through a combination of situations by our internal audit unit, the audit committee and the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of potential risks at prison level. In response, we have put in place a business process review. It is aimed specifically at areas of administrative, operational and accounting practices at prison level with a view to strengthening the processes that are in place. In particular, the review has examined matters such as sentence calculation, HR processes and cost management and led to us introducing more than 40 new standard operating procedures, SOPs, for staff at prison level so that we can ensure that the best procedures are in place and there is good compliance with same.