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Police Officer Funding

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Subjects -  Budget: New South Wales: 2005; Police: New South Wales; Western Sydney; Liverpool; Macquarie Fields
Speakers - Speaker; Debnam Mr Peter; Iemma Mr Morris
Business - Questions Without Notice


    POLICE OFFICER FUNDING
Page: 17741


    Mr PETER DEBNAM: My question without notice is directed to the Premier, and Treasurer. Will the Premier now reinstate funding for the 553 police officers his Labor Government has cut since the 2003 election year, including the 24 officers slashed from the Liverpool and Macquarie Fields local area commands?

    Mr MORRIS IEMMA: I have just outlined how the Government has added extra police: We have 14,500 police, and there were just over 12,500 when the Coalition was in government. I recently read out the figures for the Macquarie Fields Local Area Command.

    Mr SPEAKER: Order! The Premier has the call.

    Mr MORRIS IEMMA: I point out the record $2.1 billion Police budget, extra resources, extra powers. That, together with the work of the front-line men and women of the Police Force, resulted in a reduction in nine of the 16 categories. We have extra police, we have 14,500 police.

    Mr SPEAKER: Order! The honourable member for Wakehurst will come to order.

    Mr MORRIS IEMMA: There were just over 12,500 police when the Coalition left office. We have a Police budget of $2.1 billion, with nine of the 16 categories of crime reducing. I just went through all that. The only threat to police, nurse and teacher numbers in this State comes from the Opposition.


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