❓ Ms. Beard asks the Minister for Police about funding wraparound services to support police in the Gascoyne and Midwest regions. The Minister deflects responsibility, citing existing resources and operational control by police leadership.
AnsweredQoN 156Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
CRIME
— GASCOYNE AND MIDWEST
156. Ms M. BEARD to the Minister for Police:
I have a supplementary question. If the minister is unable to
allocate further policing resources to the regions, will he commit to
supporting further funding to help —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order! Sorry; you are all but inviting
interjections by having a preamble to your question. I ask you to just ask a direct
question to the minister, rather than putting a first part to it.
Ms M. BEARD : Will the minister support further funding to
help support the police with the provision of additional wraparound
services, such as safe spaces for women and children?
— GASCOYNE AND MIDWEST
156. Ms M. BEARD to the Minister for Police:
I have a supplementary question. If the minister is unable to
allocate further policing resources to the regions, will he commit to
supporting further funding to help —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER : Order! Sorry; you are all but inviting
interjections by having a preamble to your question. I ask you to just ask a direct
question to the minister, rather than putting a first part to it.
Ms M. BEARD : Will the minister support further funding to
help support the police with the provision of additional wraparound
services, such as safe spaces for women and children?
AnswerView source ↗
Things of the nature of what the member is referring to are
not in my portfolio and not my responsibility. That aside, as the member knows,
Operation Regional Shield provides the Commissioner of Police with resources
and capacity to respond to acute crime in
any part of the regions where it is in operation. It is in operation in the
midwest . As required, the commissioner, via assistant commissioner for
the regions, Assistant Commissioner Darryl Gaunt, and the commander for the
northern regions, Commander Brad Sorrell, will respond as necessary. They know
what they are doing when it comes to policing. They are the operators; they do
operations. They are afforded all the resources necessary to do their job.
Politicians should not try to tell police how to do policing because it never
ends well.
not in my portfolio and not my responsibility. That aside, as the member knows,
Operation Regional Shield provides the Commissioner of Police with resources
and capacity to respond to acute crime in
any part of the regions where it is in operation. It is in operation in the
midwest . As required, the commissioner, via assistant commissioner for
the regions, Assistant Commissioner Darryl Gaunt, and the commander for the
northern regions, Commander Brad Sorrell, will respond as necessary. They know
what they are doing when it comes to policing. They are the operators; they do
operations. They are afforded all the resources necessary to do their job.
Politicians should not try to tell police how to do policing because it never
ends well.
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