{"id":57983,"date":"2021-08-18T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=57983"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T23:35:34","slug":"police-commissioner-admits-failings-in-medi-hotel-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/police-commissioner-admits-failings-in-medi-hotel-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Commissioner Admits \u201cFailings\u201d In Medi-Hotel Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAPOL has made changes to how it runs Adelaide\u2019s medi-hotels after a man breached quarantine and spent a number of hours in the CBD earlier in the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-17-august-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 17 August 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has told David &amp; Will on FIVEAA Breakfast:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere were failings on the part of how we managed that particular incident\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cI don\u2019t make any excuses for the fact this shouldn\u2019t have happened. It did, but we are making those steps to correct those issues.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday SAPOL released a statement advising a man had been arrested over the incident and changes to medi-hotel processes had been made following an investigation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>On 3 August 2021, a 33-year-old New South Wales man arrived in South Australia on a Singapore repatriation flight and was placed in the Grand Chancellor Hotel, Hindley Street, Adelaide. The man was subject to a 14 day quarantine order to remain in the hotel.<\/p><p>Just after 10pm on Thursday 12 August the man left the medi-hotel breaching hotel security. He returned to the Grand Chancellor Hotel around 6.00 am on Friday 13 August.\u00a0\u00a0He is known to have attended the nearby Duke of York Hotel in Currie Street and a McDonalds fast food outlet.<\/p><p>The man was fully vaccinated and at the time of this incident had returned negative COVID-19 test results on days 1, 5 and 9 of his quarantine.\u00a0\u00a0On his return to the medi-hotel he submitted to another COVID-19 test which again returned a negative result.<\/p><p>State Coordinator and Commissioner of Police Grant Stevens initiated an investigation into the incident.<\/p><p>The investigation established that the man left his room entering a nearby fire exit within approximately seven seconds.\u00a0\u00a0While recorded on CCTV his movement in the corridor was not detected by personnel actively monitoring the CCTV of that area. There was no alarm on the fire exit.<\/p><p>A short time later the man entered the basement carpark of the Grand Chancellor where he was located by police near the exit.\u00a0\u00a0The man provided false information to police regarding his presence in the car park.\u00a0\u00a0This led police to believe he was a patron from a nearby hotel and had inadvertently found his way to the carpark area and not a person required to quarantine in the Grand Chancellor.\u00a0\u00a0Police allowed the man to leave the area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>FIVEAA FACEBOOK LIVE STREAM &#8211; WEDNESDAY 18 AUGUST &#8211; WATCH HERE:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F521870122216297%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>State Coordinator and Commissioner of Police Grant Stevens said: \u201cI am satisfied by the investigation conducted that the robust processes in our medi-hotels remain at a very high standard.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cOver 22,000 people have completed the medi-hotel quarantine program in South Australia.\u00a0\u00a0This isolated incident happened partly due to the close the proximity of the man\u2019s room to the fire exit and his lies to police. While there will be changes made to systems and processes and I am confident that the overall South Australia\u2019s medi-hotel quarantine arrangements remain appropriate.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIt is acknowledged that police should have made more detailed inquiries at the time to formally identify the man and verify his story and not accept it on face value.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cWe have examined our actions in relation to this incident and as a result, changes have been made to practices involving CCTV monitoring on each floor of the hotel and how we interact with any person found or working in the building. This should prevent any further incidents such as this occurring.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThe operational issues identified by the investigation have been dealt with by the managers of the personnel involved.\u00a0\u00a0No further action will be taken.\u201d<\/p><p>The man involved has been arrested and charged with breaching the Emergency Management Act.\u00a0\u00a0He has been remanded in custody and will appear in the Adelaide Magistrates Court later today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man arrested after medi-hotel breach <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H5mhs4d5Jb\">https:\/\/t.co\/H5mhs4d5Jb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OfCRUkn13U\">pic.twitter.com\/OfCRUkn13U<\/a><\/p>&mdash; South Australia Police (@SAPoliceNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SAPoliceNews\/status\/1427770236820803587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAPOL has made changes to how it runs Adelaide\u2019s medi-hotels after a man breached quarantine and spent a number of hours in the CBD earlier in the month. SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens has told David &amp; Will on FIVEAA Breakfast: \u201cThere were failings on the part of how we managed that particular incident\u2026\u201cI don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-57983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Commissioner Admits \u201cFailings\u201d In Medi-Hotel Breach - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/police-commissioner-admits-failings-in-medi-hotel-breach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Commissioner Admits \u201cFailings\u201d In Medi-Hotel Breach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SAPOL has made changes to how it runs Adelaide\u2019s medi-hotels after a man breached quarantine and spent a number of hours in the CBD earlier in the month. 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