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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Prison Dogs</name>
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        <inserted>
          <heading>Prison Dogs</heading>
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        <name>Mr TELFER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Flinders</electorate>
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          <question date="2024-08-29T01:30:00+09:30" qonNum="139">
            <name>Prison Dogs</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2024-08-30T00:00:00+09:30" />139 139<by role="member" id="6888" referenceid="1b23b655d40349f8a472b7b9eeba16df">Mr TELFER (Flinders)</by> (7 February 2024).  Aside from the Mobilong and Adelaide Women's Prison Greyhounds as Pets (GAP) programs:</inserted>
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          <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;In what other ways does the Department for Correctional Services (DCS) utilise dogs in prisons?</inserted>
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          <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;How many dogs in total are utilised in these ways?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="5382" referenceid="a772f8900bee436db277192229c352bf" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.R. CREGAN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kavel</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services</name>
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            <name>Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services</name>
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            <name>Minister for Special Minister of State</name>
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            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2024-08-29T01:30:00+09:30" qonNum="139">
            <name>Prison Dogs</name>
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            <by role="member" id="5382" referenceid="a772f8900bee436db277192229c352bf">The Hon. D.R. CREGAN (Kavel—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Special Minister of State):</by>  I have been advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>The Department for Correctional Services' Operations Security Unit utilises 12 Passive Alert Detection dogs which are trained to identify contraband.</inserted>
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