Skip to main content
Home
  • The Legislative Assembly meets on 16/04/2024 (01:00 PM)
    Assembly sit 16/04/2024
  • The Legislative Council meets on 16/04/2024 (01:00 PM)
    Council sit 16/04/2024
  • The Public Administration meets on 08/04/2024 (10:00 AM)
    Committee meet 08/04/2024

Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1198 asked in the Legislative Council on 22 November 2022 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

POLICE — REGIONAL OPERATIONS GROUP

1198. Hon PETER COLLIER to the minister representing the Minister for Police:

(1) What is the role of the regional operations group?

(2) How many officers were allocated within the ROG on 1 January 2020 and 1 January 202l?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

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

The Western Australia Police Force advises the following.

(1) It is to support Western Australia Police Force operations, including assisting the districts and regional investigations unit with the apprehension of high-harm offenders and other priority offenders; provision of support capability for critical incident or emergency management incidents; provision of a public order response capability; provision of patrol rifle AR-15 capability for critical incidents, inclusive of an active armed offender, in the metropolitan area; and tasking support to districts.

(2) There were 120 officers on both those dates.