New Gatehouse at Hawke's Bay

Staff and volunteers at Hawke’s Bay Regional Prison are celebrating the opening of their new Access Control Facility.

This long-awaited facility is a key security measure to keep everyone safe and it is a big improvement on the old system where staff and visitors alike had to wait and queue outside in all weathers. It is also a great improvement on the entry process - no more trudging up to the main jail to sign in and little slips of yellow paper to sign! 

Hawke’s Bay is now home to some state-of-the-art equipment, including a walk through metal detector, x-ray machine and APPE card scanner. The walk-through metal detector is proving to be very sensitive, with all metal items having to be removed and put separately through the x-ray machine, including belts, shoes and watches.  You have to walk through the x-ray without triggering it before you are allowed to proceed.

If any of the Hawke’s Bay volunteers have metal body parts, we need to have a short note from your Doctor, so we can enter this on your profile on the APPE system.  This will alert the security staff as to why you are triggering the metal detector machine.