❓ Question regarding the WA government's illicit drug strategy and its perceived ineffectiveness, met with a broad answer referring to the police annual report. The exchange was heated, with interruptions and Speaker interventions.
AnsweredQoN 202Legislative Assembly
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POLICE —
ILLICIT DRUG STRATEGY
202. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS to the Minister for Police:
I have a supplementary question. Does the minister have any
clue what the government's strategy is, given that the report card for
WA is so bad?
ILLICIT DRUG STRATEGY
202. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS to the Minister for Police:
I have a supplementary question. Does the minister have any
clue what the government's strategy is, given that the report card for
WA is so bad?
AnswerView source ↗
I would need a considerable amount of time in this place to
go through and list every aspect of the strategies that Western Australia
Police employ to —
Mrs
M.H. Roberts : Pick two or three!
The
SPEAKER : Order, member for Midland!
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : — target the range of issues to do with drug
trafficking in the state. If the member would like to place that question on
notice, I would be happy to detail that. All members can access the police
annual report on its website. The police annual report details these —
Mrs
M.H. Roberts : Give the pay cheque back—you don't do any
work!
The SPEAKER : Member for Midland,
I call you to order for the first time. This is degenerating. The reason I
stopped the previous question was that members were not giving the Minister for
Health the courtesy of answering and we were just wasting time. If members are
going to shout across the chamber when they ask a question, I will move on to
the next question. It is as simple as that. Have you finished, minister?
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : Just to finish off my answer —
Mr
P.B. Watson : You haven't started yet!
The
SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I call you to order for the first time.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : To finish off my answer, the police have a range of strategies
across a range of different specialist portfolio areas to do with the
trafficking of illicit drugs and targeting users of illicit drugs and, indeed,
to a degree, the misuse of prescription drugs in our community. I refer the
member to the police annual report, which details the range of strategies
police have to combat these things across the breadth of policing. To ask a
question without notice that requires such a detailed answer does not, I
believe, give due regard to the efforts of police in our state to combat drug
trafficking and illicit drugs.
go through and list every aspect of the strategies that Western Australia
Police employ to —
Mrs
M.H. Roberts : Pick two or three!
The
SPEAKER : Order, member for Midland!
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : — target the range of issues to do with drug
trafficking in the state. If the member would like to place that question on
notice, I would be happy to detail that. All members can access the police
annual report on its website. The police annual report details these —
Mrs
M.H. Roberts : Give the pay cheque back—you don't do any
work!
The SPEAKER : Member for Midland,
I call you to order for the first time. This is degenerating. The reason I
stopped the previous question was that members were not giving the Minister for
Health the courtesy of answering and we were just wasting time. If members are
going to shout across the chamber when they ask a question, I will move on to
the next question. It is as simple as that. Have you finished, minister?
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : Just to finish off my answer —
Mr
P.B. Watson : You haven't started yet!
The
SPEAKER : Member for Albany, I call you to order for the first time.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : To finish off my answer, the police have a range of strategies
across a range of different specialist portfolio areas to do with the
trafficking of illicit drugs and targeting users of illicit drugs and, indeed,
to a degree, the misuse of prescription drugs in our community. I refer the
member to the police annual report, which details the range of strategies
police have to combat these things across the breadth of policing. To ask a
question without notice that requires such a detailed answer does not, I
believe, give due regard to the efforts of police in our state to combat drug
trafficking and illicit drugs.
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