Page 4623 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 27 November 2019
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line for the ACT. It is important to note that we have invested more in the past two budgets than previously. We have now a number of police acting for the safety of the whole ACT community. I continue to invest in that resource.
MRS JONES: I will let the minister know that it was 719. Minister, what was the number of full-time equivalent frontline police in ACT Policing on 31 June 2019?
MR GENTLEMAN: I thank the member for the question. As I have mentioned, we have invested in more police over the past number of years. The FTE for 2019 was 977.94.
Ms Lee: Can you clarify that number again, Minister?
MR GENTLEMAN: The FTE headcount for 2018-19 was 977.94.
MS LEE: Minister, was the number of full-time equivalent frontline police in the ACT police force lower at the end of 2018-19 than at 30 June 2011, and, if so, why?
MR GENTLEMAN: I do not have the figures for 2011. However, I as mentioned earlier, I will take that on notice.
ACT Health—SPIRE project
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Health, who was feeling left out yesterday. I refer to the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine emergency department guidelines, which state, “Security issues arise in all emergency departments, exacerbated by drugs, mental illness and anxiety amongst patients and those accompanying them.” Minister, what security risk assessment has been done related to the risks of having the proposed location for the SPIRE building so close to the junior playing area of Garran Primary School?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mrs Dunne for the question, but I am not really sure what point she is trying to make. As I have repeatedly said, the front entrance to the emergency department, as currently planned in the SPIRE development, is on Hospital Road, which is not on Gilmore Crescent; it is a long way from Gilmore Crescent. The front entrance of the emergency department, the emergency department itself and the current proposed footprint of SPIRE are not next-door to Garran Primary School or the junior playing area.
MRS DUNNE: To what extent will the proposed change in the location result in more risks to Garran residents and the students of Garran Primary School, and has the minister updated her knowledge of Garran geography in the last little while?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I have visited Canberra Hospital on a number of occasions, including during school drop-off time and pick-up time recently. I have seen the traffic on Gilmore Crescent. I made a commitment to Garran residents at the Woden Valley Community Council meeting, when Mrs Dunne was in attendance, that we will work with them to address the existing traffic issues, the existing safety issues, that they have identified, as we work through both the development of SPIRE and the
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