Page 3691 - Week 10 - Thursday, 19 September 2019
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Anti-social behaviour in youth is a complex area of behaviour and requires well considered responses and intervention to prevent criminal offending. ACT Policing work directly with our community to prevent anti-social behaviours and improve outcomes for those coming into contact with the legal system. Early intervention, education and diversion strategies are key to disrupting the life-cycle of criminal offending and ACT Policing will continue efforts to engage with and divert youth away from harmful and anti-social behaviours.
In collaboration with the Roads Transport Authority, Justice and Community Safety Directorate and community partners, the ACT Government and ACT Policing also undertake numerous strategies to improve road safety and reduce anti-social driving behaviours, including speeding. These strategies include the ‘Fatal Five’ media campaigns and joint education campaigns in line with the Road Safety Calendar, which are largely focused on improving road culture and enforcement.
The ACT Government has also developed the ACT Road Safety Strategy 2011-2020 and the ACT Road Safety Action Plan 2016-2020. These policies ensure ACT Government agencies and stakeholders work collaboratively to improve road safety. These policies, together with the Ministerial Direction to ACT Policing to combat dangerous driving behaviours, provide a framework to ensure resources are directed towards issues nominated by the community warranting intervention by police and/or treatments by other ACT road and road safety agencies.
ACT Policing specifically undertake targeted traffic operations to target dangerous driving behaviours, including speeding and ACT Policing actively enforce road transport and safety legislation, to improve our road use culture and reduce trauma on our roads.
This government has given ACT Policing a record investment of over $33 million in the 2019-20 budget that will deliver 69 more frontline, operational and support staff to keep our city safe as it grows.
Government—invoices
(Question No 2587)
Mrs Dunne asked the Minister for Health, upon notice, on 2 August 2019:
(1) In relation to the answer given at part (3) of question on notice No 2508, why (a) do staff changes and staff leave delay payments to creditors and (b) are there not staff backfill arrangements in place to ensure business continuity in management of payments to creditors.
(2) In relation to the answer given at part (5) of question on notice No 2508, why did agency staff not scan the hard copy invoice and feed it into the electronic system to enable more efficiency in the management of payments to creditors.
Ms Stephen-Smith: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
(1) The process for paying invoices has been amended so that multiple staff members have visibility of paid and unpaid invoices, enabling payment coding and approvals to be redirected to an alternative staff member when required.
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