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Question Without Notice No. 1086 asked in the Legislative Council on 2 December 2021 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

POLICE — MEDICALLY RETIRED OFFICERS — REDRESS SCHEME

1086. Hon PETER COLLIER to the minister representing the Minister for Police:

I refer the minister to his response to question without notice 963 asked on Thursday, 11 November 2021 and to question without notice 1035 asked on Tuesday, 30 November 2021.

(1) Will the minister confirm that no officer has received a payment from the redress scheme from 29 May 2020?

(2) Will the minister confirm that no officer will be eligible to access a payment from the redress scheme into the future?

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)–(2) Yes, the police redress scheme for former medically retired police officers who were injured or became ill at work and were subsequently medically retired under section 8, was a once-off, unique $16 million initiative open for applications between 13 December 2018 and 8 April 2019. Subsequent to the police redress scheme, the Police Amendment (Medical Retirement) Act 2019 separated medical retirement from section 8 to ensure that injured or ill officers' service could end with dignity and not under section 8.

The Western Australia Police Force advises that there have been no work-related medical retirements since the police redress scheme was finalised to ensure that officers who needed to be medically retired due to work-related injury or illness can access compensation under the police compensation scheme following the passage of the Police Amendment (Compensation Scheme) Bill 2021.