 The centre has not gone without its share of local controversy.In 2006, a security guard and disgraced former officer of the Western Australia Police working at the centre received a 12-month suspended sentence for the destruction of crucial evidence in the trial of a police assault against an alleged teenage shoplifter.The security officer, then head of the security at the centre, gave evidence at a Corruption and Crime Commission hearing in June 2006 that he had over-written the video recording showing the assault, because he did not understand why the constable hit the alleged offender and did not want the officer to lose his job.