The Australian Government has made changes to functions overseen by the Attorney-General's Department and Department of Home Affairs. These changes involve the transfers of:

  • identity and biometrics functions into the Attorney-General's Department
  • protective security policy and government and major event security functions to the Department of Home Affairs.

International Transfer of Prisoners Statement of Policy

Prisoner transfer
Publication date
Download
ITP Statement of Policy [PDF 362.14 KB]
ITP Statement of Policy [DOCX 101.54 KB]

The International Transfer of Prisoners (ITP) Scheme is a consent-based scheme that allows Australians imprisoned overseas, and foreign nationals imprisoned in Australia, to apply to serve the balance of their sentence in their home country.

Related links

International transfer of prisoners