WATCH FULL VIDEO NOW: Behind the Bars, exclusive behind the scenes corrective services look
Watch the full exclusive mini documentary behind the scenes of corrective services officers training, from riot practice to the dreaded gas chamber.
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Watch NewsLocal journalists and Corrections Minister Geoff Lee as they joined a cohort of trainee corrective services officers at Francis Greenway Correctional Complex to see if they had what it takes to be an officer.
Riot training, handcuffs and running the bush gauntlet to face the dreaded gas chamber, watch the full 10 minute mini documentary above to get an exclusive glimpse of what trainee officers must go through.
It’s hard, gruelling work, and trainees must pass an intensive 10-week course to then be entrusted to staff some of NSW’s most dangerous prisons and inmates.
Watch the full behind the scenes video, including interviews from the minister, recruits and senior officers.
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