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.