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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Prisons, Mobile Phone Jamming Technology</name>
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          <heading>Prisons, Mobile Phone Jamming Technology</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4335" kind="question">
        <name>Mr ODENWALDER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elizabeth</electorate>
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          <question date="2020-02-20" qonNum="28">
            <name>Prisons, Mobile Phone Jamming Technology</name>
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          <inserted>28 <by role="member" id="4335">Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth)</by> (20 February 2020).  Has mobile phone jamming technology been trialled at any SA prison, and, if so, what were the results of this trial?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4843" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. C.L. WINGARD</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Gibson</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Police</name>
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            <name>Minister for Recreation</name>
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          <question date="2020-02-20" qonNum="28">
            <name>Prisons, Mobile Phone Jamming Technology</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4843">The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing):</by>  I am advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department for Correctional Services has commenced work to meet the government's election commitment to undertake a pilot program at a regional prison to block the use of contraband mobile phones.</inserted>
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          <inserted>Work has been undertaken to identify the most appropriate type of technology and a suitable trial site for the pilot program. </inserted>
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