The Detention Service is in the process of recruiting a number of personnel with police, military or correctional services background.

The aim of this recruitment is to select personnel who have served in a disciplinary corps for employment as casual Detention Service officers.

The Detention Service requires up to 50 personnel with the right experience. Primarily, they will be assigned security duties at closed accommodation centres, housing irregular immigrants. Such duties will involve physical security of compounds within closed accommodation centres, close escort of irregular immigrants from centres to hospitals and other locations, distribution of meals to irregular immigrants as well as dealing with visitors to accommodation centres.

Personnel who meet the criteria as laid out in the call for applications published in the Government Gazzette of 21 April, will be required to sit for an interview, after which they will be informed of their suitability or otherwise for employment.

Selected personnel will be given a short period of intensive training on the duties and responsibilities of Detention Service officers. Other subjects covered during training include laws, regulations and policies governing the custody of irregular immigrants, standing operating procedures and medical situation awareness.

Casual Detention Service officers are issued a uniform and have an annual remuneration equivalent to Salary Scale 14.