❓ Question regarding the allocation of 50 new police officers, specifically whether they will be dedicated to Perth transit and if country WA will receive any additional officers. The Minister confirms the transit allocation and outlines plans for Aboriginal Police Liaison Officers and future deployments.
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I refer to the minister’s media statement today in which she claims that 50 police officers are being recruited over and above the attrition rate. (1) Is it not the case that the Perth-based transit police unit is to consist of approximately 50 officers, none of whom will be Aboriginal liaison officers? (2) Is it therefore the case that country Western Australia will not get one extra police officer as a result of her announcement this morning? Mrs ROBERTS
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I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
(1) Is it not the case that the Perth-based transit police unit is to consist of approximately 50 officers, none of whom will be Aboriginal liaison officers? (2) Is it therefore the case that country Western Australia will not get one extra police officer as a result of her announcement this morning? Mrs ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
(2) Is it therefore the case that country Western Australia will not get one extra police officer as a result of her announcement this morning? Mrs ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
Mrs ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
(1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
(1) Is it not the case that the Perth-based transit police unit is to consist of approximately 50 officers, none of whom will be Aboriginal liaison officers? (2) Is it therefore the case that country Western Australia will not get one extra police officer as a result of her announcement this morning? Mrs ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
(2) Is it therefore the case that country Western Australia will not get one extra police officer as a result of her announcement this morning? Mrs ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
Mrs ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
I thank the member for his question and for his interest in policing. (1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
(1)-(2) I was pleased to announced today that we have already got the first 50 officers above the attrition rate out on patrol. The member is quite right; it means 50 officers doing railway policing, which is a tremendous initiative and tremendous support for the travelling public on the train system. There is no point in having a world-class public transport system unless the security can be provided to go with it, so that people are encouraged to use the train system at evenings and weekends. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Murdoch and the member for Kalgoorlie! Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
Mrs ROBERTS: I recently attended the induction of 19 Aboriginal police liaison officers at the new Western Australia Police Academy in Joondalup, nine of whom were women and 10 of whom were men. Ten are part of our commitment to 40 APLOs over the four years of our term of government. We will put 40 extra APLOs into the system, which represents a big percentage increase, bearing in mind that currently there are about only 104 APLOs in Western Australia. Forty extra APLOs will make a big difference. Before 30 June of this year, we will have inducted another 50 officers over and above the attrition rate, who will be employed on a needs basis throughout Western Australia.
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