AUTHORITIES are searching for a Vietnamese man who escaped Serco guards at Perth Airport this morning.
AUTHORITIES are searching for a Vietnamese man who escaped Serco guards at Perth Airport this morning.
A five-hour search involving officers from the Australian Federal Police, WA Police from the Kensington, Belmont and Cannington stations and the dog squad failed to locate the missing man.
An AFP spokeswoman said the man escaped while under escort in the international departures terminal.
A spokesman for Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison confirmed the man was still on the run. However, the spokesman would not say why the man was being deported.
"At about 9.15am local time a Vietnamese national absconded while on escort at the departures check-in area within the Perth International Airport," he said about 6pm.
"AFP and WA Police were advised and police assisted Serco in the search for the individual. The man has yet to be located.
"Efforts to relocate the individual will continue to be made by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection."
The spokesman said the man was "an illegal maritime arrival".
Serco last night referred all inquiries to the department.
At about 2pm, Kensington Police tweeted: "Sorry 4 the lack of tweets 2day. Kenso, @BelmontPol and @CanningtonPol assisting with a five hour search. Can't disclose too much right now".
The escape was the latest in a spate of embarrassing blunders by Serco.
Two maximum-security prisoners, including a violent rapist, kicked their way out of a prison van at Geraldton Airport on January 3.
The escape prompted a 36-hour manhunt, which resulted in the private contractor having to pay more than $720,000 towards the search and an upgrade to its prison van fleet.
The high-profile incident prompted the WA Prison Officers' Union to call for Serco to be stripped of its prisoner transport contract.
The Opposition also called for Corrective Services Minister Joe Francis to be dumped from the portfolio because of "his appalling management and string of failures".
At the time, Mr Francis said he had had a "very open, firm and frank" conversation with the company's Asia Pacific boss where he said Serco should foot the bill for the massive manhunt.
Two weeks later, a dangerous prisoner escaped from Serco's custody while being treated at Joondalup Health Campus.
And just a few days later, a Vietnamese detainee, under the watch of Serco guards, escaped while receiving medical treatment at Royal Perth Hospital, leading police on a two-hour manhunt across the CBD.
Last month, Serco was embroiled in another embarrassing escape when a convicted armed robber slipped away from two guards during a routine hospital visit.
Darren John Goldsworthy, 22, was handcuffed but still managed to outrun Serco staff, who had escorted to a radiology appointment at Royal Perth Hospital.
Goldsworthy was arrested about an hour later.
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