Friday, August 12, 2016

Self-harm and sexual abuse incident reports filed on Nauru were routinely altered and downgraded in seriousness by the security company tasked with protecting asylum seekers on the island...

Self-harm and sexual abuse incident reports filed on Nauru were routinely altered and downgraded in seriousness by the security company tasked with protecting asylum seekers on the island, new documents reveal.

Save the Children, one of the major agencies in the detention centre, protested that they were “usually downgraded without any clear justification”. A spokeswoman for Wilson Security said the company followed the reporting guidelines established by Australia’s immigration department and denied that incident reports are systematically downgraded in breach of the guidelines.

The Guardian’s investigation into the Nauru files, the largest cache of leaked documents published about the immigration detention system, reveals that more than 100 reports made by other Australian companies working in the detention centre were downgraded in seriousness by Wilson Security.

While there may be a legitimate reason to downgrade the risk assessment of an incident if it has been incorrectly recorded, the Guardian’s analysis of the documents shows a number of incidents that appear to have been altered in breach of the reporting rules for these events. Full story...

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