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Is policing resource keeping up with rising crime rates?
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08/10/2024
In the latest POLFED Pay and Morale Survey, 86% do not feel there are enough officers to meet the demands of their team or their unit.
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It's very challenging for police in the hall at the moment because we're trying to meet
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varying demands and what is quite an impactive incident for individuals in the community
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when they feel like this disorderly behaviour is affecting their home, it's almost like
00:18
an invasion of their personal space, so it's very high in their priority. So when we start
00:23
looking at officers, the public perhaps thinking officers don't care or don't want to attend
00:29
a nuisance incident, they have to prioritise their work and I know a lot of my colleagues
00:34
out there have got 30 crimes to investigate. The increase in nuisance behaviour, how is
00:40
that affecting morale and mental health of police officers given the frequency and sometimes
00:46
lack of visible progress in addressing these type of issues? I can give you some key figures
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here because in our last police morale survey, the pay morale survey we did with the Federation,
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we found that 91% of officers were suffering from low mood or very low mood due to how
01:05
they're being treated by government is one thing, but secondly the amount of work that
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they have to do and the demand that's placed on them. Yeah that's a really shocking number
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that the figure is so high. In terms of support then, do you believe that current laws and
01:20
policies are effective in helping the police manage this sort of nuisance behaviour, low
01:25
level crime, that sort of thing, or are there areas where reform is needed? There needs
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to be significant investment back into policing. Like I've said to you before, you know that
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the replacement of 20,000 officers doesn't mean that we've still got that capability
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because what it doesn't show is the support staff that sit behind officers helping them
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to be frontline, they've all disappeared. So there's been investment in police officers
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but not in the infrastructure to support officers to be out on the streets. So we need
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significant investment in policing.
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