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.