POLICE — EXCESSIVE FORCE ALLEGATIONS —
CORRUPTION AND CRIME COMMISSION
800. Hon NICK GOIRAN to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Attorney General:
I refer to recommendation 13 of the
fifteenth report of the Joint Standing Committee on the Corruption and Crime Commission, published in September 2020, which
states that the Attorney General should ensure that the WA Police Force
and Corruption and Crime Commission publish statistics on their investigations
into allegations of excessive use of force.
(1) Has the Attorney General
considered this recommendation?
(2) If yes to
(1), will the Attorney General table the most recent published statistics?
(3) If no to
either (1) or (2), why not?
Hon
MATTHEW SWINBOURN replied:
I thank the
member for some notice of the question.
(1)–(3) The
fifteenth report of the Joint Standing Committee on the Corruption and Crime
Commission was tabled on 24 September 2020 during the fortieth Parliament. Due
to the prorogation of Parliament and the dissolution
of the Legislative Assembly on 7 December 2020, the government did not have the
opportunity to respond to the recommendations of the fifteenth report.
On 9 September 2021, the Joint Standing Committee on the Corruption and Crime
Commission of the present Parliament tabled its second report containing the
findings and recommendations of the fifteenth report. The government's
response to the second report will be pursuant to Legislative Assembly standing
order 277(1).