POLICE — STAFF — REGIONS
1215. Hon NEIL THOMSON to the minister representing the
Minister for Police:
Will
the minister please advise how many job vacancies there are today within Western
Australia Police Force separately for
each of the districts in the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the Gascoyne–midwest
and the goldfields–Esperance regions?
Hon
MATTHEW SWINBOURN replied:
I thank the member for some notice
of the question. Can the member confirm that was C1195?
Hon Neil Thomson: It was
C1271.
Hon
MATTHEW SWINBOURN: Was the question: will the minister please advise
how many job vacancies there are today within Western Australia Police
Force separately for each of the districts in the Kimberley, the Pilbara, the
Gascoyne–midwest and the goldfields–Esperance regions?
Hon Neil Thomson: That is
right.
Hon MATTHEW SWINBOURN: I thank
the member for some notice of the question.
On
behalf of the minister representing the Minister for Police, I provide the
following response based on information provide 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. Over 400 new officers
will have graduated this year. Full-time equivalents are deployed by the
Commissioner of Police to address the 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. As at 30
November 2021, there are 211.23 FTE police officers in the Kimberley district;
221.23 FTE police officers in the Pilbara; 246.41 FTE police officers in the
midwest–Gascoyne district; and 193.32 FTE police officers in the
goldfields–Esperance district. This is an increase of 75 FTE police
officers across these regions from 30 June 2016. As at 15 December there were 25 FTE vacancies in the Kimberley district,
seven FTE vacancies in the Pilbara district, 19 FTE vacancies in the
midwest–Gascoyne district and 22 FTE vacancies in the goldfields–Esperance
district.