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NEWS > 18 October 2006

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Police find it hard to cope

A SHORTAGE of experienced officers is affecting the force's ability to investigate crimes, the Police Association says.

As the State Government boasts of greater police numbers, the association's annual conference heard yesterday that minimum staffing levels had not been met and that the retention of seasoned officers was more important than recruiting from overseas.
President Peter Alexander called on the Government to look at incentives for police to stay in the job and said better planning in the past would have avoided the need to rely on international recruits.

"At the moment, we are seeing people enter the job, but we do have a serious problem with retention," he said. "We welcome UK recruitment, but the very fact we have to recruit from England, says surely we haven't done things correctly over the last few years."

Mr Alexander said inexperienced police lacked specialist investigation knowledge, while experienced UK recruits lacked local knowledge,

Interstate forces are steadily draining SA of officers by heavily advertising and offering financial and other incentives which, the Police Association says, must be offered here.

"You can't blame young people for not having the experience when they haven't got experienced people to learn from," Mr Alexander said.

"Men and women who join SA police need to know there is a career for them and that there are incentives. We have to make ourselves competitive."

Police Minister Paul Holloway said the problem of recruiting and retaining staff was a challenge in any industry.

"We could easily fill the numbers in the police force if we were to reduce the standards," he said.

"If anything, the recruits we've got from the UK make us the envy of other police forces across the country."

Premier Mike Rann said yesterday by 2010, there would be a extra 1000 officers from June, 1997, and $109.5 million has been allocated to obtain another 400 police officers over the next four years.

"South Australia will clearly retain a strong hold on its title of being the Australian state with the largest number of sworn officers per capita," he said.
 

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