Hon. Rod Caddies asks about weekend closures of regional police stations and requests a commitment to weekend staffing. The Minister defers answering due to resource constraints.

AnsweredQoN 285Legislative Assembly
Asked
28 May 2025
Portfolio
Police

QuestionView source ↗

Police—Regional stations
285. Hon Rod Caddies to the minister representing
the Minister for Police:
I refer to regional
police stations.
(1) Can the minister advise how many police
stations in rural and regional Western Australia are closed on weekends?
(2) Given the critical role of these stations for
community safety, will the Western Australian Government commit to ensuring all
regional towns with a police station have a police officer present on weekends?
(3) If no to (2), why not?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the
honourable member for some notice of the question. The following answer has
been provided to me by the Minister for Police.
The WA Police Force
has advised that an answer to this question would require a significant amount
of time and resources to collate. If the member wishes to receive a more
fulsome answer, I ask that the he put the question on notice.

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