WA Police Commissioner Chris Dawson said the 35-year-old local man, from Secret Harbour, arrived in the state from Queensland last Tuesday and was directed to stay at a hotel on Great Eastern Highway in Redcliffe for 14 days.

But he was allegedly twice visited by a woman he’d invited to his room and also left the premises to attend a party, mingling with a small group of people.

“After careful consideration of the circumstances of the breaches and the man’s history, the State Emergency Coordinator formed a view that it was necessary to monitor his location during the quarantine period,” police said in a statement.

He has had an ankle bracelet fitted, been transferred to a quarantine hotel in the Perth CBD and will appear in Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday.

“The Victorians are a special case because of the fact of the rates of infection so they’re in the strict quarantine hotels - this chap was in another hotel - quite a famous hotel actually,” Premier Mark McGowan told reporters.

“He obviously breached the rules.”

The first person to be fitted with an electronic monitoring device for breaching a quarantine direction occurred six days ago.

The 33-year-old woman, who arrived from New South Wales on September 1, was directed to stay alone at a private residence in Perth for 14 days quarantine but allegedly had two men visit her.

Mr Dawson said most people were doing the right thing and police had issued less than 200 COVID-19 related infringements over the past six months.