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.