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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3393 ..

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The nature of the AFP activities mentioned above makes them difficult to assess in any formal sense. Nevertheless, management's view is that these activities have proved to be of considerable value.

ACT Corrective Services did not undertake any assessment of the in-house drink driving courses that it conducted in 1995/96. An initial assessment of the ADFACT program was made after the first group of offenders completed the program and it was found to be more than satisfactory. The program is based on a program (still in operation) developed by the Department of Social and Preventative Medicine at the University of Queensland with research funding provided by the Federal Office of Road Safety. The ADFACT program conducts psychometric tests to measure participants' readiness to change drinking/drink driving behaviours and alcohol use prior to and at the completion of the course.

No formal assessments have been conducted on the programs and information sessions conducted at BRC. Detainee movements would make the conduct of such assessments very difficult.

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