Unified Security has been providing guards to the program in NSW. There, police have the lead enforcement role and the Defence Force oversees the arrival and exit of detainees. That system 'seems to work far more effectively,' Unified says. | EXCLUSIVE
The Victorian government is withholding more than $10 million in payments claimed by the security companies it engaged to guard returned travellers at Melbourne’s quarantine hotels.
The revelation comes as Unified Security told the ongoing inquiry into hotel quarantine on Thursday that police and the Defence Force should have been involved in Victoria, rather than having private security in the lead role.The company has been providing guards for the program in NSW, where police have the lead enforcement role, while the Defence Force oversees the arrival and exit of detainees.
Instead of fulfilling its objective of preventing transmission from expats and travellers returning from overseas, COVID-19 spread from hotel quarantine in May to a hotel worker and security guards and into the community.
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