Every inspection report the WA Inspector of Custodial Services publishes ends with a short table of key dates: when the inspection was announced, when the team arrived and left, when the draft went to the Department of Justice, when the Department replied, and when the report was finalised. It is a small thing, and almost no other body Regulator Review has examined does it.
It is also what shows the gaps. Lined up across 30 inspection cycles since 2019, those dates show 12 cycles ran past the three-year limit in the Act, nine by more than a month (calc). The office's annual reports do not report against the three-year rule. Its own appendices are the only reason anyone outside can.
Sources: OICS inspection reports 126 to 171, key dates pages; Inspector of Custodial Services Act 2003 (WA) s 19.