Police Stations

The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE (14:31): Supplementary: based on the minister's answer, can the minister confirm to the house whether he has been briefed by the police commissioner or the police commissioner's executive on a current review occurring in the Riverland on police locations for police officers?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:32): I thank the honourable member for his important question. Of course, I have been briefed regarding reform efforts that are now being undertaken within SAPOL. There is a substantial reform effort that has been undertaken that has been widely publicised, which each and every MP within this chamber and also the lower house have been invited to receive briefings on; and I note that the former minister for police, the Hon. Mr Brokenshire, did not elect to take up that opportunity.

We did provide for a briefing on what is occurring regarding SAPOL's reform effort and, as was explained at that briefing, that reform effort currently is solely focused on the Adelaide greater metropolitan area. It is not a reform effort that is looking at the regions, as it currently stands. That is something that I endorse. The metropolitan area has a unique set of circumstances to that of the regions so the reform effort that is being undertaken at the moment is specifically within metropolitan Adelaide.