Palaszczuk Government admits to fewer police - Police numbers fall by 202 in one year
In a Budget Estimates bombshell, the Palaszczuk Labor Government has today admitted frontline police numbers are going backwards.
After months of denials, Queenslanders now know police numbers shrunk by 202 officers last financial year.
Today we learn 685 officers left the Queensland Police Service last financial year, and just 483 new officers were sworn-in.
That’s 202 fewer police officers in the middle of the Queensland Youth Crime Crisis.
In 2020, the Premier promised to deliver an additional 1450 police officers by 2024.
That promise is in tatters.
If not a single extra police officer left the Queensland Police Service, they’re still 1200 officers short of their promise.
If attrition continues at the current rate, they’ll need a staggering 2300 new officers to fulfill their promise.
The Palaszczuk Government is in a constant state of chaos and crisis.
Police morale is at an all-time low and getting worse.
The Palaszczuk Government doesn’t value our hardworking men and women in blue.
Whistleblowers are speaking out because of the chaos and crisis of this Government.
Minister Ryan’s bald-faced deceptions about falling police have only made the situation worse.
It’s clear this Government can’t deliver the police they promised.
It’s clear this Government doesn’t have the solutions to the Queensland Youth Crime Crisis.
