❓ Mr. Barron-Sullivan questions the Police Minister about the discrepancy between the promised 23 officers for the Bunbury rapid response squad and the actual five, also raising concerns about undermining existing police resources. The Minister deflects, highlighting her government's investment in the region compared to the previous government's record.
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One thing is for sure: the minister’s answer to my question will not be as long as her last one. I refer to the new rapid response squad, or flying squad, established in Bunbury, and to Labor’s pre-election promise - which I think the minister once said she had written when in opposition - that such a squad would comprise a commissioned officer, two sergeants or senior sergeants and a minimum of 20 constables. Bunbury was promised at least 23 new officers through the new flying squad. I also remind the minister of Labor’s commitment to employ additional police to man this squad to avoid undermining existing police capacities. (1) Why does the new rapid response squad in Bunbury comprise only five police officers, not 23 as promised? (2) Why was one person on the squad taken from other front-line duties, thereby undermining existing police capacities and breaking Labor’s policy commitment? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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(1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
(1) Why does the new rapid response squad in Bunbury comprise only five police officers, not 23 as promised? (2) Why was one person on the squad taken from other front-line duties, thereby undermining existing police capacities and breaking Labor’s policy commitment? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
(2) Why was one person on the squad taken from other front-line duties, thereby undermining existing police capacities and breaking Labor’s policy commitment? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
(1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
(1) Why does the new rapid response squad in Bunbury comprise only five police officers, not 23 as promised? (2) Why was one person on the squad taken from other front-line duties, thereby undermining existing police capacities and breaking Labor’s policy commitment? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
(2) Why was one person on the squad taken from other front-line duties, thereby undermining existing police capacities and breaking Labor’s policy commitment? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: (1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
(1)-(2) The member for Mitchell sought to remind me of a couple of things. I start by reminding him of a couple of things. In its last four years in office, the coalition Government did not provide the Police Service with any extra police officers. There was not one extra police officer in four years. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr R.C. Kucera: You created an additional vacancy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: It did not recruit one extra person above the level of attrition. That is its record. It provided no extra officers to the Bunbury region. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: We doubled the number. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: I read with some interest the nonsense of the member for Mitchell that was reported in his local paper. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: Nonsense! This is your policy. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: The fact is that we have put more resources into the Bunbury region in two and a half years than those opposite did in not just four years but eight years. The question the member for Mitchell is not asking is: how many extra officers have we put into the Bunbury region since we have come to government? My understanding is that - keeping in mind that our four years is not up - at least 14 more officers are in the Bunbury region than there were when we came to government. That is progress. Members opposite could not provide one officer throughout the whole State; already we have provided 14 extra officers to the member’s region. Superintendent John McRoberts is new to that region and a top superintendent. He has initiated a number of great programs in the Bunbury region since he arrived. He has already started to put in place a district support group. It has a small number of officers. However, the local member for Mitchell is knocking the superintendent. He says that the squad is not good enough and that he does not want it. Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mr D.F. Barron-Sullivan: You promised 23 officers. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS: He is knocking the efforts of his local police and of a Government that has delivered more in two and a half years than his Government did in four. We have said before that this member speaks with a forked tongue, and he is speaking with it again today.
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