Transit Police

Mr PISONI (Unley) (14:55): My question is to the Minister for Transport. Does the minister stand by his written public statement, dated 29 January 2016, which claims there are 'now almost 100 transit police and more than 200 safety officers riding our public transport services'?

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (14:56): I thank the member for Unley for his question about this; in fact, this is nearly a carbon copy of a question he asked me last sitting week. I confirm to the house what I confirmed back then, and that is the advice that I have, that we have made good our commitment in 2012 to increase the number of transit police by 28 funded positions.

He asked me for a particular figure and, given his recent performance where he has identified a number of police who attended work on one particular day and tried to represent that as being the full cohort of transit police, I am not going to engage in that. I have said to the house that I will seek what further information, if any, I can be provided with from the Minister for Police and provide that to the house accordingly.