December 19 2008 aap
A convicted pedophile has surrended to new South Wales authorities six day's after ditching his elctronic monitoring anklet and fleeing detention.
Troy Myers was on parole and living in a community offender residence in Sydney's south-west sfter serving four years in jail for aggravated sexual assault of a person under 16.
He bolted from Campbelltown residence on Sunday , allegedly removing his monitoring device after Department of corrections staff told police he had a blood alcohol reading of 0.119 contrfavening his parole.
Corrective Services personel delivered the 28-year-old man to Campbelltown police at 3.30pm on friday after his family convinced him to surrender.
Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham said the departments Community Compliance Group (CCG) had worked around the clock on the case.
''With the support of my officers in the CCG team , tghis offender's family convinced him to give himself up'' Mr Woodham said in a statement.
It was the third time Myers had breached his parole since being released from prison in September Mr Woodham alleged.
'' On the first two occassions Mr Myers was taken back to court , but magistrates decided to again release him ,'' he said.
'' This was after CCG officers had conducted urine tests on him and found the drug ice in his system.
The New South Wales Opposition accused Corrective Services of jeopardising public safety by not revealing Myers was missing until Thursday when NSW police appealed for public assistance in finding him.
'' It's very odd and unacceptable that it's taken five days for the Corrective Services Department to make this public '' legal affairs spokesman Greg Smith told reporters on friday.
A pedophile out on the loose , who's been said by police to be dangerous , should alway's be the subject of an urgent warning to parents and to other people that he's to be detained or to be avoided and police are to be alerted.
Mr Smith said there was a culture of cover-up and secrey within the corrective services department , but mr Woodham said his department passed on the matter within two hours of Myers breach.
'' There is no cover-up in the matter and i reject his ridiculous claims ,'' Mr Woodham said.
Police said officers responded immediately once the Myers matter was reported to them.
'' Once the arrest warrant had been obatined by corrective services ,and after a number of legitimate investigative avenues provided fruitless , police made a publice appeal to find him ,'' a spokeswoman for NSW police said in a statement.
Mr Smithsaid tougher release conditions for sex offenders were needed , along with more parole officers.
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