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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 699 asked in the Legislative Council on 14 September 2021 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

POLICE — MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES

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

I refer the minister to his response to question without notice 692 in relation to the critical incident response crisis support service asked on Thursday, 9 September. In particular, I refer to the fact that over $700 000 was spent in 2018, $1.3 million in 2019 and $1.4 million in 2020. Given that the total composition of staff for the critical incident response crisis support service is an on-call psychologist and an on-call chaplain, what else is included in the funds allocated for this service?

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 that the costs referred to in question without notice 692 are those associated with the provision of psychologists and chaplaincy support services, which are rostered to provide ongoing coverage. The costs include all salaries, overtime, on-call, travel expenses, annual leave or long service leave, superannuation and higher duties allowances associated with coverage of the services.