Page 3546 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 12 October 1994
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those police are constantly being called out to deal with other matters. It seems to me that there is a very serious resourcing question entailed in the idea of country town policing in a community like the ACT, where so many other duties of our police are Territory-wide, or even beyond the Territory, and where we need to be constantly considering ways of treating those resources flexibly.
I note that there are many things that our police do. We have had, in recent years, some stability in the turnover of police in this Territory. There have not been such a large number of resignations as there were at one time a few years in the past. I hope that that is a sign of a permanent state of affairs and that if a policeman or policewoman adopts a particular area they will be a feature of that area for a long time to come. I do emphasise, again, that the question of resourcing this exercise needs to be carefully considered, and I look forward to more information from the Minister, in due course, about how that would be achieved if further steps were taken down this path - that is, if we were to expand this to other areas or to the whole of Canberra. I commend the exercise. I see it as a very positive way of advancing a method of policing which will have some important impact on some of the problems faced in the Territory at this time.
Debate (on motion by Ms Szuty) adjourned.
PAPERS
MR BERRY (Manager of Government Business): For the information of members, I present the following papers: Errata to the Department of Health annual report 1993-94; the Milk Authority of the Australian Capital Territory annual report 1993-94, including financial statements and the Auditor-General's report, pursuant to subsection 93(1) of the Audit Act 1989; Canberra Theatre Trust annual report 1993-94, including financial statements and the Auditor-General's report, pursuant to the Audit Act 1989.
HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND SERVICES
Ministerial Statement
MR LAMONT (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Housing and Community Services, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement on a major reform of ACT housing assistance and services.
Leave granted.
MR LAMONT: I also seek leave to table a copy of - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: You just table it, Mr Lamont. That is fine.
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