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  <date date="2015-03-18" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Police Recruitment</name>
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        <heading>Police Recruitment</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4343" kind="question">
        <name>Mr GARDNER</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Morialta</electorate>
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          <question date="2015-03-18">
            <name>Police Recruitment</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-03-18T14:30:11" />
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          <by role="member" id="4343">Mr GARDNER (Morialta) (14:30):</by>  My question is to the Minister for Police. Will the government meet its commitment taken to the last two elections to deliver an extra 313 sworn police officers over and above the 2010 numbers?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="3123" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. A. PICCOLO</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Light</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Disabilities</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Police</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Correctional Services</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Emergency Services</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Road Safety</name>
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          <question date="2015-03-18">
            <name>Police Recruitment</name>
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        <startTime time="2015-03-18T14:30:24" />
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          <by role="member" id="3123">The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light—Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:30):</by>  I get regularly briefed on this matter and, in fact, I answer this question after each graduation ceremony. The most recent briefing I have received from SAPOL was that we are on line to recruit. That is the advice I have received.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">Members interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. A. PICCOLO</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3123">The Hon. A. PICCOLO:</by>  No, sorry.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection">An honourable member interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Hon. A. PICCOLO</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="member" id="3123">The Hon. A. PICCOLO:</by>  We are on track, on line, to recruit the additional police.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  The leader has long been on a second warning.</text>
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          <event kind="interjection" role="member" id="4338">Mr Marshall interjecting:</event>
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        <name>The Speaker</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
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          <by role="office">The SPEAKER:</by>  Please.</text>
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