❓ Mrs Godfrey asks about the changes and benefits of the Frontline 2020 program's next stage. Minister Harvey outlines the centralised traffic enforcement model, highlighting improved coordination, targeted enforcement, and recent operations like Greyfriars and Blue Eagle 1.
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POLICE — FRONTLINE 2020 PROGRAM
809. Mrs G.J. GODFREY to the
Minister for Police:
I notice that at the weekend,
Western Australia Police launched the next stage of reform under the Frontline
2020 program. Can the minister please outline to the house what those changes
are and what benefits they will provide to the police and to the community as a
whole?
809. Mrs G.J. GODFREY to the
Minister for Police:
I notice that at the weekend,
Western Australia Police launched the next stage of reform under the Frontline
2020 program. Can the minister please outline to the house what those changes
are and what benefits they will provide to the police and to the community as a
whole?
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I thank the member for Belmont for
the question.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Thank you very much, member for Midland. I call you to order for
the first time. Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time.
Can we just let the minister answer the question and move on.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : Under the Frontline 2020 reform program, the police are trying
to improve the way they do business and to take a better coordinated approach
to crime across the board. The police have moved to what they call a
centralised traffic enforcement model, member for Belmont, and I think this
will be of great interest to a number of the member's constituents.
What happened previously was that
traffic officers were located in metropolitan districts, and there was a
central traffic enforcement unit within police. All those resources will now be
controlled centrally. That will enable far better coordination and far better
management of our traffic resource. It will enable us to take a more targeted
approach to our traffic enforcement to ensure that we are targeting the main
causes of serious injury and fatal crashes. Under this proposal—indeed,
it is in operation at the moment—we have brought crash vetting and
investigation, traffic enforcement, the specialist resources of our drug and
breath testing units, our motorcycle patrols, and our advanced traffic
management vehicles under the central control of the traffic unit.
The police have already run two
traffic enforcement programs. One of those programs was run two weeks ago, and
it was called Greyfriars. The statistics for this program are quite shocking.
Through Greyfriars, the police targeted suspended drivers using the software in
the ATMVs. Over a two-week period, the police impounded 145 motor vehicles that
were being driven by suspended drivers. That is a very good result for WA
Police, and it sends a good, strong message to the community that traffic
enforcement officers will be there to catch people if they are driving while under
suspension. The member for Mandurah and the Deputy Premier would be interested
to know that last week in the Peel, WA Police ran Operation Blue Eagle 1.
Members may get some complaints from their constituents about this. Over the
last week, the police have issued 350 traffic infringement notices in the Peel
district.
So we are getting a more coordinated approach from our
traffic enforcement unit out of this model. I think that particularly over
those targeted programs that we run over long weekends and in the lead-up to
school holidays and all those events, we will get far better management of our
traffic resource and far better results, and hopefully, after that, much better
compliance by motorists on the roads to ensure the safety of the community.
the question.
Several members interjected.
The
SPEAKER : Thank you very much, member for Midland. I call you to order for
the first time. Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time.
Can we just let the minister answer the question and move on.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : Under the Frontline 2020 reform program, the police are trying
to improve the way they do business and to take a better coordinated approach
to crime across the board. The police have moved to what they call a
centralised traffic enforcement model, member for Belmont, and I think this
will be of great interest to a number of the member's constituents.
What happened previously was that
traffic officers were located in metropolitan districts, and there was a
central traffic enforcement unit within police. All those resources will now be
controlled centrally. That will enable far better coordination and far better
management of our traffic resource. It will enable us to take a more targeted
approach to our traffic enforcement to ensure that we are targeting the main
causes of serious injury and fatal crashes. Under this proposal—indeed,
it is in operation at the moment—we have brought crash vetting and
investigation, traffic enforcement, the specialist resources of our drug and
breath testing units, our motorcycle patrols, and our advanced traffic
management vehicles under the central control of the traffic unit.
The police have already run two
traffic enforcement programs. One of those programs was run two weeks ago, and
it was called Greyfriars. The statistics for this program are quite shocking.
Through Greyfriars, the police targeted suspended drivers using the software in
the ATMVs. Over a two-week period, the police impounded 145 motor vehicles that
were being driven by suspended drivers. That is a very good result for WA
Police, and it sends a good, strong message to the community that traffic
enforcement officers will be there to catch people if they are driving while under
suspension. The member for Mandurah and the Deputy Premier would be interested
to know that last week in the Peel, WA Police ran Operation Blue Eagle 1.
Members may get some complaints from their constituents about this. Over the
last week, the police have issued 350 traffic infringement notices in the Peel
district.
So we are getting a more coordinated approach from our
traffic enforcement unit out of this model. I think that particularly over
those targeted programs that we run over long weekends and in the lead-up to
school holidays and all those events, we will get far better management of our
traffic resource and far better results, and hopefully, after that, much better
compliance by motorists on the roads to ensure the safety of the community.
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