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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1048 asked in the Legislative Council on 30 November 2021 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

POLICE — VACANCIES

1048. Hon PETER COLLIER to the minister representing the Minister for Police:

What is the total number of police officer vacancies in Western Australia at the moment?

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 McGowan government is delivering 950 extra police officers over four years, the single largest increase in police officer numbers.

Hon Sue Ellery: That's great. How many?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON: There are 950 extra. Over 400 new officers will have graduated this year.

FTE are employed by the Commissioner of Police to address areas of greatest operational need. To enable this, vacancies are carefully managed across the Western Australia Police Force. The Western Australia Police Force advises that data identifying officer numbers can vary daily due to a number of factors, including natural attrition, leave without pay, officers attending training, transfers between districts and officers being attached to specific operations. The Western Australia Police Force advises that the number of predicted police officer vacancies in Western Australia as at 1 December 2021 is 56 pending completion of corporate attrition number reporting. A further 60 police recruits will commence on 13 December 2021, as planned, to meet attrition.