Page 1675 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 13 May 2015
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crime across our community. That report showed a 51.2 per cent decrease in burglaries and a 49.3 per cent decrease in motor vehicle theft. Further, last year we saw a five per cent decrease in all reported offences across the ACT, with offences against people decreasing by 14 per cent and property crimes decreasing by four per cent.
The overall trend continues on a downward trajectory. In the December 2014 quarter, the criminal justice statistical profile continued to report consistent decreases across a broad range of reported property and personal crimes in the ACT in the 12 months to December 2014. These included sexual assaults down 33 per cent; abduction, harassment and other offences down 18 per cent; property damage and environmental pollution down 17 per cent; and acts intended to cause injury such as assault down 11 per cent.
Mr Hanson’s motion covers a range of issues relating to policing, but does not, I believe, paint an accurate picture of the outcomes and the high performance that our police continue to deliver for our community. I will say up-front that we will be opposing this motion, and I move the amendment circulated in my name:
Omit all words after “That this Assembly”, substitute:
“(1) notes that:
(a) ACT Policing (ACTP) continues to deliver services that keep the ACT community safe, with crime rates declining over the past six years;
(b) the Australian Federal Police has been subject to Federal Government efficiency dividends since the early 1990s but ACTP has been exempt from these saving measures;
(c) as part of the 2013-2014 ACT Budget, a range of saving initiatives was applied across the ACT Government, including a General Savings Measure of 1 per cent to the Territorial appropriation for ACTP for the first time;
(d) this General Savings Measure requires ACTP to achieve a total of $15.362 million of savings over four years, with a remaining budget of about $610 million;
(e) ACTP has met the General Savings Measure from within existing resources;
(f) ACTP is in the process of identifying $1.567 million of savings for 2015-2016 and $1.606 million of savings for 2016-2017;
(g) ACTP and the Chief Police Officer are committed to reducing costs wherever possible and to ensure ACTP has a sustainable business model which will continue to serve the community in line with the Purchase Agreement and the Ministerial Direction; and
(h) frontline services, including general patrol duties, operations centre and crime teams, will continue to be the priority for ACTP; and
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