Madam Deputy Speaker, whenever there is an escape or we have risk-profiled a particular offender, it is important that that offender is handcuffed and is footcuffed as well when going to court, because we have to protect the officials. I have lost too many officials because of offenders who were not cuffed, and I am not going to take a chance on that at all. The lives of those officials are very important.
When we get to the courtroom - I am not talking about the police, I am talking about Correctional Services - in most cases we are able to take off the footcuffs. But we don't take the risk, particularly with high-risk criminals, taking off the handcuffs, because they have to be protected as well. So I did not take the decision, but I support that people who are dangerous must be cuffed, end of story. I am working in a security environment, not in any other environment. [Interjections.]