❓ Ms. Quirk questions Mr. Johnson about his awareness of figures related to police complaints regarding use of force, despite his signature on a document containing those figures. Mr. Johnson defends his position, citing the volume of paperwork he handles and assuring the accuracy of information provided by the police.
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POLICE — COMPLAINTS REGARDING USE OF FORCE
I note the minister’s comments that he is unaware of these figures. I ask whether it is his signature on the question that was tabled in the upper house last month; and, if so, why is it that he is still claiming he is unaware? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
I note the minister’s comments that he is unaware of these figures. I ask whether it is his signature on the question that was tabled in the upper house last month; and, if so, why is it that he is still claiming he is unaware? Mr R.F. JOHNSON
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That is the supplementary, is it? I sign hundreds of pieces of paper, as the member would know, because she was a minister once in the dark old days. That was a question in the upper house, and I would have signed on the accuracy of that. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: That is the supplementary, is it? I sign hundreds of pieces of paper, as the member would know, because she was a minister once in the dark old days. That was a question in the upper house, and I would have signed on the accuracy of that. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
That is the supplementary, is it? I sign hundreds of pieces of paper, as the member would know, because she was a minister once in the dark old days. That was a question in the upper house, and I would have signed on the accuracy of that. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON replied: That is the supplementary, is it? I sign hundreds of pieces of paper, as the member would know, because she was a minister once in the dark old days. That was a question in the upper house, and I would have signed on the accuracy of that. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
That is the supplementary, is it? I sign hundreds of pieces of paper, as the member would know, because she was a minister once in the dark old days. That was a question in the upper house, and I would have signed on the accuracy of that. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
The SPEAKER : Member for Perth, you did not ask the question and I do not know that it is an appropriate interjection. It is not seeking any information that will be useful in this place. Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
Mr R.F. JOHNSON : Any answers to questions that were asked in the upper house I would have signed. I am very happy to look at it. The member asks whether it is my signature. Yes, it is a great signature and a nice, smooth-running one. It has all joined-up writing, which might be difficult for the member to understand. It refers to public complaints received per category. There are a lot of complaints in total, but is the member telling me that all those types of complaints were never made during the years of her term in government? If she is telling me that there were zero complaints, I think she should be truthful in this place. That is my signature, yes, and certainly I would have looked through all those figures. Those are the figures given to me by the police. She asked me to confirm the number. I am sorry, but I am a human being and I cannot remember a number from what I signed off last month, because I have hundreds of pieces of paper to deal with and I am inundated with questions from her colleagues in the upper house and from her and her colleagues in this house—hundreds of them. I answer them all truthfully. I get the information, as she did when in government, from the relevant department, whether it be WA Police, the State Emergency Service or the Office of Road Safety, and I will answer those questions truthfully. I will not put my name and signature to something that is not truthful.
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