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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1073 asked in the Legislative Council on 24 September 2019 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

POLICE — SWORN OFFICERS

1073. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the minister representing the Minister for Police:

I refer to Legislative Council question without notice 975, the answer to which referred to Legislative Assembly question on notice 5094 and which did not provide the information I asked for.

(1) Can the minister confirm that the approved strength referred to in part (c) of question on notice 5094 is based on FTE positions?

(2) Can the minister clarify what relationship the actual headcount figure referred to in part (c) of question on notice 5094 has with FTE positions; and, if it has no reference, can the minister provide the FTE equivalent?

(3) At 1 January 2018, 1 January 2019 and currently, what was the number of sworn officers employed by the WA Police Force, by FTE and headcount?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following answer has been provided to me by the Minister for Police.

(1)–(3) The approved strength of 6 395 is the number of FTE for which the Western Australia Police Force is funded. In the time available to provide a response, the police officer headcount, as reported annually in the Western Australia Police Force annual report, was 6 342 in 2016; in 2017, 6 430; and in 2018, 6 459.

The Western Australia Police Force advises that the police officer headcount at 1 September 2019 is 6 474, or 6 274.5 FTE. There are 169 recruits in eight schools in the academy, with more recruit schools to commence before the end of the year. By December 2019, recruits will have been engaged to replace the police officers who chose to take a voluntary severance.