Security Services: Immigration Detention and Manus Island

security services: Paladin had little experience in providing garrison and security services in immigration detention, but the home affairs department has said it was left with little choice but to hand it the contract because others were reluctant to be associated with the noise of its offshore detention regime, according to The Guardian. Asylum seekers on Manus Island said they had long questioned what the Australian government was paying for, not just through its deal with Paladin, but with all its contractors. The Australian government is continuing to face scrutiny for its decision to hand the contracts to run the Manus Island asylum and refugee centres to the contractor Paladin, through a non-competitive tender process. Paladin controversy prompts renewed scrutiny of 591m Nauru deal Read more The award-winning journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani, who is on Manus, said there were many locals working at the centre on low wages. Security incidents were typically dealt with by police, he said. He said Paladin's staff did little more than check IDs and sit in camps by the front gate. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.