Service Performance: Output Class 3- Custody of Remand Inmates

This output class provides for safe, secure and humane services and facilities to hold people charged with offences, and offenders convicted but not yet sentenced, and to enable their appearance before the courts as required.

It provided for a throughput of 11,597 new remand prisoners in the 2004/05 financial year, representing an average prison population of 1,247 remand prisoners. This demand is met by accommodating prisoners across remand facilities, with any overflow accommodated in segregated custodial facilities.

OUTPUT CLASS STATEMENT: CUSTODY OF REMAND PRISONERS

30/06/04 Actual $000		30/06/05 Actual $000	Main Estimates $000	Supp. Estimates $000
	REVENUE
47,674	Crown	70,371	50,844	72,871
0	Other	0	0	0
47,674	Total Revenue	70,371	50,844	72,871
47,659	Total Expenses	70,076	50,844	72,871
15	Net Surplus	295	0	0

This output entails the management of all remand prisoners in a custodial environment. It incorporates the costs of accommodation, security, transport, food and medical care, but not the cost of employment or specific reintegrative interventions.

	2003/04	Performance Standard 2004/05
Performance Measure	Actual	Actual	Budget	Variance
Quantity
The average number of remand prisoners held by the:
• Auckland Central Remand Prison:	263	343	3391	4
• Public Prisons Service:	886	830	913	–83
• Police/court cells:	0	74	0	74
Total average number of remand prisoners held:	1,149	1,247	1,252	–5
Quality
The number of breakouts per annum to be no more than:	0	0	2	–2
The number of all other escapes per annum to be:	0	0	0	Nil
The number of breakouts per annum from Auckland Central Remand Prison to be:	0	0	0	Nil

Comment
This measure is influenced by rates of arrests and decisions of the judiciary and is outside the Department’s control. Notwithstanding, the total average number of remand prisoners was in line with planned levels, with the latter reflecting the Ministry of Justice prison population forecast. The lower number of remand prisoners accommodated by the Public Prisons Service primarily reflects the utilisation of additional remand capacity made available at the Auckland Central Remand Prison, and the fact that some beds intended for remand prisoners were occupied by sentenced prisoners.

The year-end result includes those remand prisoners who were held in police cells, the full year average of which was 74 prisoners. In general, the Department utilises court cells to accommodate sentenced prisoners, where necessary, and police cells to accommodate remand prisoners, although some remand prisoners were accommodated in court cells during the year.

1 Ministerial approval was received to revise this performance standard from 257.