In relation to the resignation of police officers in the ACT Division:

(1) How many have resigned from the Police Force in; (a) 1996-97, (b) 1997-98, (c) 1998-99; and

(2) How many years of service did each resigning officer have.

(1) (a) 15

(b) 21

(c) 19

(2) years of service for 1996-97 and 1997-98 are not available from the current database. In July 1998, the Australia Federal Police introduced a new human resource database and not all details pertaining to past employees were transferred. Personal files for these employees have been archived.

1998-99 - 5, 18, n/a, 12, 4, 14, n/a, 9, 1, n/a, 15, 13, 26, 10, n/a, 4, n/a, 11 and 22 years.

Where the years of service are not available (n/a) this is also due to the introduction of the new HR database when information pertaining to employees who had indicated that they would be resigning was not given priority in the transfer of data process.