❓ Mr. Prince responds to a question about police salaries, asserting they are among the highest paid nationally and highlighting budget increases under the current government compared to the previous Labor government.
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Have the salaries of police officers in Western Australia kept pace with their increased work requirements? Mr PRINCE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. Police officers in this State are now, if not the highest paid, among the highest paid in the nation. An enterprise bargaining agreement, negotiated and signed in February 1999, provided for a wage increase of 9 per cent over two and a half years. The total increase is now 27.7 per cent since 1993. The EBA also introduced a number of other conditions, which were very well received by officers, including a $2 340 payment to metropolitan officers in charge, doubling the payment to country officers, and providing salary packaging for the first time. The recurrent police budget is $395.6m, representing an increase of $155m, or 64 per cent since the last budget under the last Labor Government. On indexed figures, since 1993 this Government has spent $2.8b on recurrent spending on police - $740m more than Labor in the last seven recurrent budgets of each Government. At present, expenditure on police represents $208 per capita in this State, compared with $160 per capita in the Labor Government’s last budget, which is an increase of 30 per cent or $48 per capita. Our police are extremely well paid for what they do, and the police recurrent budgets show a significant increase under the present Government and a significant decrease in the last four years of the Labor Government.
Mr PRINCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. Police officers in this State are now, if not the highest paid, among the highest paid in the nation. An enterprise bargaining agreement, negotiated and signed in February 1999, provided for a wage increase of 9 per cent over two and a half years. The total increase is now 27.7 per cent since 1993. The EBA also introduced a number of other conditions, which were very well received by officers, including a $2 340 payment to metropolitan officers in charge, doubling the payment to country officers, and providing salary packaging for the first time. The recurrent police budget is $395.6m, representing an increase of $155m, or 64 per cent since the last budget under the last Labor Government. On indexed figures, since 1993 this Government has spent $2.8b on recurrent spending on police - $740m more than Labor in the last seven recurrent budgets of each Government. At present, expenditure on police represents $208 per capita in this State, compared with $160 per capita in the Labor Government’s last budget, which is an increase of 30 per cent or $48 per capita. Our police are extremely well paid for what they do, and the police recurrent budgets show a significant increase under the present Government and a significant decrease in the last four years of the Labor Government.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. Police officers in this State are now, if not the highest paid, among the highest paid in the nation. An enterprise bargaining agreement, negotiated and signed in February 1999, provided for a wage increase of 9 per cent over two and a half years. The total increase is now 27.7 per cent since 1993. The EBA also introduced a number of other conditions, which were very well received by officers, including a $2 340 payment to metropolitan officers in charge, doubling the payment to country officers, and providing salary packaging for the first time. The recurrent police budget is $395.6m, representing an increase of $155m, or 64 per cent since the last budget under the last Labor Government. On indexed figures, since 1993 this Government has spent $2.8b on recurrent spending on police - $740m more than Labor in the last seven recurrent budgets of each Government. At present, expenditure on police represents $208 per capita in this State, compared with $160 per capita in the Labor Government’s last budget, which is an increase of 30 per cent or $48 per capita. Our police are extremely well paid for what they do, and the police recurrent budgets show a significant increase under the present Government and a significant decrease in the last four years of the Labor Government.
Mr PRINCE replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. Police officers in this State are now, if not the highest paid, among the highest paid in the nation. An enterprise bargaining agreement, negotiated and signed in February 1999, provided for a wage increase of 9 per cent over two and a half years. The total increase is now 27.7 per cent since 1993. The EBA also introduced a number of other conditions, which were very well received by officers, including a $2 340 payment to metropolitan officers in charge, doubling the payment to country officers, and providing salary packaging for the first time. The recurrent police budget is $395.6m, representing an increase of $155m, or 64 per cent since the last budget under the last Labor Government. On indexed figures, since 1993 this Government has spent $2.8b on recurrent spending on police - $740m more than Labor in the last seven recurrent budgets of each Government. At present, expenditure on police represents $208 per capita in this State, compared with $160 per capita in the Labor Government’s last budget, which is an increase of 30 per cent or $48 per capita. Our police are extremely well paid for what they do, and the police recurrent budgets show a significant increase under the present Government and a significant decrease in the last four years of the Labor Government.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. Police officers in this State are now, if not the highest paid, among the highest paid in the nation. An enterprise bargaining agreement, negotiated and signed in February 1999, provided for a wage increase of 9 per cent over two and a half years. The total increase is now 27.7 per cent since 1993. The EBA also introduced a number of other conditions, which were very well received by officers, including a $2 340 payment to metropolitan officers in charge, doubling the payment to country officers, and providing salary packaging for the first time. The recurrent police budget is $395.6m, representing an increase of $155m, or 64 per cent since the last budget under the last Labor Government. On indexed figures, since 1993 this Government has spent $2.8b on recurrent spending on police - $740m more than Labor in the last seven recurrent budgets of each Government. At present, expenditure on police represents $208 per capita in this State, compared with $160 per capita in the Labor Government’s last budget, which is an increase of 30 per cent or $48 per capita. Our police are extremely well paid for what they do, and the police recurrent budgets show a significant increase under the present Government and a significant decrease in the last four years of the Labor Government.
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