PRISONERS in holding cells at Orange police station will be given the choice of a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder after the decision was made to stop sourcing meals from the Orange Health Service.
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Prisoners will be offered a choice from McDonald’s menu, with the food hand-delivered by on-duty police officers.
Inspector Peter Atkins said the hospital was no longer able to provide hot meals around the clock and the practicalities of travelling to the Bloomfield site made the switch necessary.
Inspector Atkins said the cost of providing meals was roughly the same at both food suppliers, once you factored in the time it took police officers to pick up the food.
“It was more efficient to do it in town,” he said.
Inspector Atkins said McDonald’s was offered to prisoners at some other police stations throughout the state.
He said most people only stayed in the holding cells for one or two meals, usually eating breakfast and/or an evening meal there.
The Orange Health Service confirmed it had been supplying meals to the police for more than 10 years before the police decided to go elsewhere some three weeks ago.
