THE Correctional Services Department (CSD) will review security at the High Island Detention Centre after five inmates broke out yesterday.
Staff at the camp have called for the 4,000 inmates to be locked in their huts at night, but Security Branch officials say this would affect the management style of High Island.
Early yesterday morning the five inmates climbed over two high security fences to escape. One was caught almost immediately while the other four were arrested after being found hiding in bushes.
A CSD spokesman said staff had already been strengthened and better security installed after a breakout in July when about 90 Vietnamese boat people fled the camp. Three remain on the run.
Secretary for Security Peter Lai Hing-ling said he could not promise similar escapes would not be repeated.
'The High Island detention centre is not an impregnable fortress, nor is it a high-security prison like Stanley jail,' he said.
'All we can do is try our best to intensify the security and to reduce the opportunity for escape by improving the management and facilities in the detention centre,' he said.
