The State Services Commissioner has released the report of his inquiry into Corrections handling of the Canterbury Emergency Response Unit. Read the released CERU report.
Chief Executive Mark Byers says he welcomes the thorough and detailed report, which confirms many of Corrections' own findings into the CERU. Read the media release...
The CERU was established at Christchurch Men's Prison in July 1999 as a temporary resource. Read more on the CERU…
The State Services Commissioner, Michael Wintringham, has released the Terms of Reference for his inquiry into the Department of Corrections' handling of the ERU.
Phil McCarthy, General Manager Public Prisons Service, responds to the public’s main concerns about the employment investigation in this article published in the Christchurch Press on 29 October 2003. Read more >>
10 October 2003
Regarding the presence of explosives at Christchurch Prison, 1997
25 September 2003
Former Emergency Response Unit
23 May 2001
Employment investigation results in disciplinary action
22 May 2001
Three staff from Canterbury Prisons have been the subject of an employment investigation into alleged breaches of the Department’s Code of Conduct. Read more in the Executive Summary of Employment Investigation Report.
In March 2002 Phil McCarthy submitted the Emergency Response Unit: Mangement Issues Report details memo to Chief Executive, Mark Byers, and the Department's Assurance Board.
Note this memo is shown as it was when released under the OIA with sensitive and personal information deleted.
Read the Emergency Response Unit: Mangement Issues Report (pdf: 94KB)
Chief Executive Mark Byers briefed the Acting Minister of Corrections, Hon Margaret Wilson, on the mangement issues report in March 2003 (pdf: 10KB)