Afghanistan committee  The issue would be with whether they were wearing the leg restraints at the appropriate time, which is supported by the UN standards, which are as follows: was it for the purposes of transfer, was its purpose to prohibit escape, was it for the purposes of preventing self-injury?

Afghanistan committee  Prisoners who had been injured on the battlefield were always accorded medical treatment in the Kandahar Airfield detention facility. Following that, it was our role as correctional advisers to make sure that doctors came out to the prisons on a regular basis and treated any medical concerns that were brought to our attention.

Afghanistan committee  In the NDS, yes, they were not strictly military detainees. They could have been there for other high-profile crimes.

Afghanistan committee  You have to understand that the detainee file was just one small part of what I was doing over there. My role was to deal with all prisoners and all prisoner complaints across a variety of jurisdictions, which included NDS; the Afghan National Police, which fell under the Ministry of Interior; and Sarposa Prison, which fell under the Ministry of Justice.

Afghanistan committee  When I use the word “prisoner”, it's in the context of not being a military detainee. In that respect it would have been someone who approached us on one of our visits and brought this information forward. We had such an incident in April, where we were approached by prisoners in NDS, and then we have the situation here that you're referring to, the ANP allegations.

Afghanistan committee  The six I was speaking to, yes. We had them identified on our list to interview, and we did interview those persons, and they did make those allegations. However, it is an allegation. It's a comment made. We tried to verify the comments and were unable to do so.

Afghanistan committee  Yes, sir.

Afghanistan committee  I specifically did not have that training. However, I do have a background in 28 years in corrections and I have certainly seen all types of injuries and trauma, whether it's from prison violence or domestic abuse or all of those types of things. Typically in these types of interviews, if someone made an allegation, we would ask them if they had sought medical attention, if they bore any marks or scars.

Afghanistan committee  Exactly, sir.

Afghanistan committee  True.

Afghanistan committee  Most definitely. Through the work we did and the planning we did, through DFAIT and the global peace and security fund, we were able to upgrade the septic systems, which impacted the health and safety of the prisoners and the staff who lived there. We were able to provide training, equipment, uniforms, vehicles, security towers, and solar lighting, to the point where the infrastructure assessments that came out after our being there indicated that Sarposa was one of the better prisons in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan committee  I can't speak to that point in a public forum, sir.

Afghanistan committee  I'll answer your last question first because it's most recent in my memory. No pressure has been put on me whatsoever. These are full and complete statements of what I personally observed in interviews. I have been able to report all my comments in my reports, and today in my opening statement, freely without any restrictions whatsoever.

Afghanistan committee  First of all, these are not my reports. These are DFAIT reports.

Afghanistan committee  No, sir, not in this format. I did write reports and I did submit my reports to DFAIT, and DFAIT also wrote their reports.