❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice scrutinising the WA Police Force's budget targets and performance indicators related to offences against persons and property, as well as the effectiveness of road safety awareness campaigns. The response provides explanations for the discrepancies in the reported figures.
AnsweredQoN 555Legislative Council
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I refer to page 403 of Budget Paper No. 2, Volume 2, the "Outcomes and Key Effectiveness Indicators", and I ask: (a) why is the budget target kept at 810 for "Rate of offence against the person (excluding family and domestic violence-related offences)" per 100,000 people when it was 1,014.7 in 2023-24 (actual) and 1063.5 in 2024-25 (Estimated Actual); (b) further to (a), while Note 1 states that body worn cameras will continue to improve investigative response to violent incidents, what is being done to decrease the rate of these incidents; (c) why is the budget target kept at 6,200 for "Rate of offences against property (excluding family violence-related offences)" per 100,000 people when it was 4,442.1 in 2023-24 (Actual) and 4,035.9 in 2024-25 (Estimated Actual); and (d) why has the effectiveness of road safety awareness campaigns dropped from 81% in 2023-24 (Actual) to 71% in 2024-25 (Estimated Actual), and the budget target been set at 70% in 2024-25 and again in 2025-26?
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Answered
14 October 2025
Responded by
Minister for the Environment representing the Minister for Police
Response time
5 days
(a-c) The Key Performance Indicators in question - Rate of offences against the person (excluding family and domestic violence-related offences) per 100,000 people and Rate of offences against property (excluding family violence-related offences) per 100,000 people - are classified under the Community Demand indicators within the WA Police Force’s Outcome Based Management framework.
(d) This indicator is the average performance of all eligible campaigns that ran within the reporting period and is sensitive to a range of factors including time spent in market, the number of times the campaigns have run previously, and the scale of media spend. There were three eligible campaigns in 2023/24 achieving an awareness between 77% and 87%; and there were five eligible campaigns in 2024/25 achieving an awareness between 60% and 82%. In 2024/25 two of the five eligible campaigns were new and therefore were still growing their awareness at the time of data capture, achieving an average score of 61.5% compared to the three repeated campaigns that achieved an average score of 81%.
(d) This indicator is the average performance of all eligible campaigns that ran within the reporting period and is sensitive to a range of factors including time spent in market, the number of times the campaigns have run previously, and the scale of media spend. There were three eligible campaigns in 2023/24 achieving an awareness between 77% and 87%; and there were five eligible campaigns in 2024/25 achieving an awareness between 60% and 82%. In 2024/25 two of the five eligible campaigns were new and therefore were still growing their awareness at the time of data capture, achieving an average score of 61.5% compared to the three repeated campaigns that achieved an average score of 81%.
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