❓ The Minister for Police and Emergency Services responds to a question about the government's efforts to combat burglary, highlighting Operation Clearance results and comparing current statistics favorably to those of the previous government.
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Can the minister inform the House of the latest results achieved by police in the war against burglary as part of the Gallop Government’s commitment to community safety? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for his question and his ongoing commitment to law and order in this State. As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and his ongoing commitment to law and order in this State. As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
I thank the member for his question and his ongoing commitment to law and order in this State. As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for his question and his ongoing commitment to law and order in this State. As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
I thank the member for his question and his ongoing commitment to law and order in this State. As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
As you are aware, Mr Speaker, the Government has initiated a number of programs in the ongoing fight against burglary, which is in stark contrast to the situation when members opposite were in government and burglaries were at an all-time high in the 1990s. Our Government’s $20 million investment in the use of DNA profiling, together with the National Automated Fingerprint Identification System - NAFIS - now plays a major role in helping our front-line police officers turn the tide against burglars. I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
I am pleased to announce today the most recent figures from Operation Clearance, which ran a phase between 24 May and 30 May. Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
Mr M.J. Birney interjected. The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
The SPEAKER: Order! I call the member for Kalgoorlie to order for the third time. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I can see why the Opposition is a little sensitive when our March quarter statistics are 20 per cent down on the figures from the same quarter last year. I am also told that the figures are very good for April and May. We are driving burglaries down. The latest phase of Operation Clearance is part of a concerted attack on burglary to reduce the rates of burglary and increase clearance rates. In total, 287 charges on 132 people were laid in the course of just six days between 24 May and 30 May, and 255 reported incidents were cleared. In total, police referred 68 charges of stealing, 95 charges of burglary, five charges of robbery, 17 charges of fraud, 19 drug offences, and 83 other related charges. A total of 19 search warrants were executed in that week, and property valued at nearly $16 000 was recovered and will be returned to identified owners. This is good news. It is about the Police Service for the first time really turning things around. A top job has been done by the officers involved with the link crime unit under the command of Assistant Commissioner Tim Atherton. I congratulate those officers for targeting burglary in the way they have, for implementing those changes and for recovering the stolen property for its owners.
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