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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>Prisons, Drug Use</name>
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          <heading>Prisons, Drug Use</heading>
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        <name>Mr ODENWALDER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Elizabeth</electorate>
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          <question date="2021-02-17" qonNum="407">
            <name>Prisons, Drug Use</name>
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          <inserted>407 <by role="member" id="4335">Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth)</by> (17 February 2021).  Are police always called when drugs are discovered at any time on a prisoner or in a cell and is the normal legal process entered into?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4840" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. V.A. TARZIA</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Hartley</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Police</name>
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          <question date="2021-02-17" qonNum="407">
            <name>Prisons, Drug Use</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4840">The Hon. V.A. TARZIA (Hartley—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services):</by>  The Department for Correctional Services (DCS) has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>DCS makes information on all drug finds available to South Australia Police (SAPOL). </inserted>
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          <inserted>SAPOL are called if DCS attribute drugs to a specific prisoner or the drugs found are of substantial quantity and require investigation.</inserted>
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          <inserted>In all cases, the normal legal process is entered into.</inserted>
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