Page 2855 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 September 1994

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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

ACT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1327

Police Force - Staff Reductions

MR HUMPHRIES: To ask the Attorney-General -

(1) Can the Attorney-General confirm that 165 Actual Staffing Levels positions are to be cut from the Australian Federal Police in the 1994-95 financial year, as a result of the recent Federal budget; if so, how many positions will be lost in the ACT.

(2) If any positions are lost in the ACT, (a) how many positions will be lost in respect of the ACT policing function and (b) from what areas will those positions be drawn.

MR CONNOLLY: The answer to the Members question is as follows:

(1) I am not aware of how the Federal Budget might affect the national Australian Federal Police; it is simply not a matter for the ACT Government.

(2) In accordance with the Commonwealth/ACT Policing Arrangement, an average of 689 personnel are deployed under the command of the Chief Police Officer to provide police services to the ACT.

I am advised that the Australian Federal Police has no intention of seeking a downward revision of the number in the current financial year and neither does the Government.

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