Police Protection Vests

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:08): Further supplementary: how many police officers will go without vests as a result of your decision to conduct a trial, rather than apply the policy of all their vests going out there?

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! Order! Members on my right will allow the minister to answer in silence. Minister.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:08): Thank you very much. As I said to the member before, we are going to trial these vests, we are going to do exactly what we are committed to doing—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —and we look forward to delivering on that commitment.

Mr Malinauskas: You bought the vests.

The SPEAKER: I did not buy the vests, leader. The member for MacKillop has a question.

The Hon. T.J. Whetstone: Hear, hear!

The SPEAKER: The member for Chaffey will be quiet.