❓ Ms. Baker questions the discontinuation of a police officer program at Bayswater Police Station. The Minister is unaware of the specific program but promises to investigate and highlights other community policing initiatives.
AnsweredQoN 357Legislative Assembly
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BAYSWATER POLICE STATION — OFFICERS
357. Ms L.L. BAKER to the
Minister for Police:
I refer to the decision to discontinue the highly effective
program that added 10 police officers to the Bayswater Police Station between
December 2012 and March 2013.
(1) Why has this stopped? It is an excellent program.
(2) Will the
minister's government reinstate this much-needed community policing
program?
(3) Why does
the minister's government continue to have a stopgap approach to
ongoing resourcing issues rather than broad, strategic community needs in
policing?
357. Ms L.L. BAKER to the
Minister for Police:
I refer to the decision to discontinue the highly effective
program that added 10 police officers to the Bayswater Police Station between
December 2012 and March 2013.
(1) Why has this stopped? It is an excellent program.
(2) Will the
minister's government reinstate this much-needed community policing
program?
(3) Why does
the minister's government continue to have a stopgap approach to
ongoing resourcing issues rather than broad, strategic community needs in
policing?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the
member for the question.
(1)–(3)
I am not apprised of the specific program that the member referred to, but I
will raise it with the commissioner and find out exactly what that program was
about. Was it run out of Bayswater Police Station?
Ms L.L. Baker : Yes. It was a task
force.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
Okay. I will follow that up and get back to the member on that one.
With respect to community policing and local policing,
members in this place would probably be aware of one of our election
commitments, which was to engage an additional 30 youth liaison officers who
specifically will be tasked to go out and work with youth at risk or priority
offenders in the juvenile area.
Mr M.P. Murray interjected.
Mrs L.M. Harvey :
And connected to police and community youth centres. I thank the member for
Collie–Preston very much. That reminds me of another commitment of this
government to put $10.5 million into a capital works program for PCYCs to
ensure that they can deliver their programs effectively. But I digress. Members
in this house are probably aware of some of the commissioner's comments
about a new local policing model that we will be trialling in Armadale and also
in Mandurah, which is specifically to put in some additional teams to do more
proactive policing and community policing and follow-up with repeat victims of
crime and those sorts of matters, rather than have officers constantly
prioritised for tasking, which is what occurs at present. The commissioner is
very much focused on the conversations that he has had with me and the feedback
that we have had out of our community engagement program about having better interaction
of police with the community and a more localised community policing effort. I
think members should watch this space. We will have two trials running. We will
see how those programs run, and the commissioner and I will no doubt make a
determination on those matters in due course.
member for the question.
(1)–(3)
I am not apprised of the specific program that the member referred to, but I
will raise it with the commissioner and find out exactly what that program was
about. Was it run out of Bayswater Police Station?
Ms L.L. Baker : Yes. It was a task
force.
Mrs L.M. HARVEY :
Okay. I will follow that up and get back to the member on that one.
With respect to community policing and local policing,
members in this place would probably be aware of one of our election
commitments, which was to engage an additional 30 youth liaison officers who
specifically will be tasked to go out and work with youth at risk or priority
offenders in the juvenile area.
Mr M.P. Murray interjected.
Mrs L.M. Harvey :
And connected to police and community youth centres. I thank the member for
Collie–Preston very much. That reminds me of another commitment of this
government to put $10.5 million into a capital works program for PCYCs to
ensure that they can deliver their programs effectively. But I digress. Members
in this house are probably aware of some of the commissioner's comments
about a new local policing model that we will be trialling in Armadale and also
in Mandurah, which is specifically to put in some additional teams to do more
proactive policing and community policing and follow-up with repeat victims of
crime and those sorts of matters, rather than have officers constantly
prioritised for tasking, which is what occurs at present. The commissioner is
very much focused on the conversations that he has had with me and the feedback
that we have had out of our community engagement program about having better interaction
of police with the community and a more localised community policing effort. I
think members should watch this space. We will have two trials running. We will
see how those programs run, and the commissioner and I will no doubt make a
determination on those matters in due course.
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