❓ Mr. Love questions police response times in regional WA. The Police Force provides district-level median response times, explaining differences from metropolitan areas due to distance and staffing.
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What are the average response times for priority 1, 2, 3 and 4 grades of service for every separate regional police station for the 2024/2025 financial year ?
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Answered
16 December 2025
Responded by
Minister for Police
Response time
9 days
The Western Australian Police Force (WAPF) advises that regional Western Australia does not operate under the same Grade of Service (GOS) framework, that is applied for metropolitan police performance reporting.
Influences on regional Western Australia responses, that do not exist in the Perth metropolitan area, include the distance that may need to be travelled to attend to a task and the time of the day that a task is created given a number of stations in regional Western Australia do not have a 24/7 roster and officers will need to be recalled to duty to attend some tasks.
Consistent with WAPF Key Performance Indicator reporting, the response is provided at the district level and uses the median response time, which is a more reliable measure than the average for assessing typical police response.
Table 1: 2024-25 Median response time for Priority 1 and 2 (combined), Priority 3 and Priority 4 tasks in Regional WA Region, by District
Median response time (minutes)
Police Districts
Priority 1 and 2
Priority 3
Priority 4
Goldfields-Esperance
7.9
22.8
72.0
Great Southern
11.8
24.1
61.7
Kimberley
6.4
16.8
49.8
Mid West-Gascoyne
8.3
28.9
80.3
Pilbara
6.6
20.0
56.6
South West
10.8
31.6
110.1
Wheatbelt
18.4
35.6
120.6
Influences on regional Western Australia responses, that do not exist in the Perth metropolitan area, include the distance that may need to be travelled to attend to a task and the time of the day that a task is created given a number of stations in regional Western Australia do not have a 24/7 roster and officers will need to be recalled to duty to attend some tasks.
Consistent with WAPF Key Performance Indicator reporting, the response is provided at the district level and uses the median response time, which is a more reliable measure than the average for assessing typical police response.
Table 1: 2024-25 Median response time for Priority 1 and 2 (combined), Priority 3 and Priority 4 tasks in Regional WA Region, by District
Median response time (minutes)
Police Districts
Priority 1 and 2
Priority 3
Priority 4
Goldfields-Esperance
7.9
22.8
72.0
Great Southern
11.8
24.1
61.7
Kimberley
6.4
16.8
49.8
Mid West-Gascoyne
8.3
28.9
80.3
Pilbara
6.6
20.0
56.6
South West
10.8
31.6
110.1
Wheatbelt
18.4
35.6
120.6
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