Dr. Constable asks about the number of police-issued restraining orders and how many were converted to violence restraining orders. The Minister declined to answer due to resource constraints.

AnsweredQoN 1277Legislative Assembly
Asked
15 August 2006
Portfolio
Police and Emergency Services

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I refer to the police-issued restraining orders and ask -
(1) How many police-issued restraining orders have been issued since 1 December 2004?
(2) How many police-issued restraining orders in (1) were converted into violence restraining orders in court?

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Answered
12 September 2006
Responded by
Minister for Police and Emergency Services
Response time
28 days
(2) Police Orders are issued by Police and Violence Restraining Orders (VROs) are issued by a Court. To determine any relationship or conversion between the Orders would be a time consuming exercise at considerable cost with no guarantee that the Orders are related. The Commissioner of Police has advised that he is not prepared to waste valuable resources by diverting them away from core policing activities.

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