Page 3578 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 24 November 2021
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supplementing its support to the vehicle replacement program to commence the transition to low carbon emitting vehicles—once again, leading in climate action.
There is $9.8 million over four years to expand the current ACT police station at the Gungahlin Joint Emergency Services Centre, relocate State Emergency Service and Rural Fire Service to a new site in Gungahlin and initiate design work for a new Gungahlin region ACT Ambulance and ACT Fire & Rescue station.
There is $1.7 million over two years to develop a master implementation plan of critical infrastructure and accommodation requirements across ACT Policing, Emergency Services Agency and ACT Corrective Services. There is $2.5 million over four years to upgrade ESA’s critical ICT systems to increase the capacity of the emergency triple-0 communications centre and the incident management room, including enhancing the functionality of the computer-aided dispatch mobile data system, radio management consoles and servers.
There is $27.6 million over four years to fund the salary increases for ACT Policing staff, as part of the Australian Federal Police Enterprise Agreement 2020. There is $11.1 million over four years to address expanded enabling services provided to ACT police by the Australian Federal Police. There is $6.6 million over four years to replace ACT Policing’s radio core communications system, along with providing ongoing maintenance support for the new system.
There is $4.3 million over four years to meet the growing and more complex workload associated with ACT Policing’s forensic medical services, including the requests that are made. This includes support for services such as the medical assessment of people in custody, the documenting of evidence for injuries from assault and assisting with the coronial process.
There is $2.4 million in the 2021-22 budget to continue the COVID-19 public health response. There is $21.8 million over three years to invest in reintegration and wellbeing initiatives to enhance services and support available to detainees at the AMC. Critical repair and improvements to the AMC will be facilitated in addition to the strategic assessment of the long-term future accommodation needs of the facility. This will address the long-term accommodation needs of women at the facility. Funding will also be used to develop and enhance wellbeing and reintegration programs.
There is $8.2 million over four years to continue the assessment and supervision of offenders considered for intensive corrections orders, ICOs, which allow suitable offenders, generally those serving short sentences, to serve their sentence or full-time imprisonment in the community under the supervision of ACT Community Corrections. There is $800,000 in 2021-22 for the continuation of Winnunga’s holistic model of health service delivery to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander detainees at AMC.
Through the strategic investments in this bill, the government will enhance the overall community safety and wellbeing of all Canberrans. I am pleased that, throughout my
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