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Police Tasers

Mr ODENWALDER (Elizabeth) (15:32): My question is to the Minister for Police.

The Hon. S.K. Knoll interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order! The Minister for Transport is called to order.

Mr ODENWALDER: Can the minister inform the house when all front-line operational police officers will be equipped with tasers?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (15:32): That is a matter for the police commissioner. I have talked through our election commitments, and we had quite a number there. I am very happy that we are delivering on them as we go. Of course, our hoon hotline rolling into the app will be very greatly appreciated. I could go on about the police station opening hours and the extension there. People are very grateful, especially in the surrounding suburbs of Glenelg, Henley Beach—

Mr Odenwalder interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Member for Elizabeth!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: —and also in the Norwood area. They are very appreciative of the expansion of our police station opening hours. What we have also done there, which has been really well received, has been putting civilians back into police stations, which I know was an operation prior to—

Mr ODENWALDER: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: There's a point of order. One moment. Is it debate?

Mr ODENWALDER: Relevance, sir. My question is clear.

The SPEAKER: I have the point of order. Minister, I believe you will come to it quickly. It is preamble at this stage. You have had 15 seconds. Please come back to the substance of the question.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. The essence of the question was about our election commitments, and we took a number of election commitments, and it was about—

The SPEAKER: Order, members on my left!

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: I did make the point that that is a matter for the commissioner. As far as our other election commitments are concerned—

Mr Odenwalder interjecting:

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: You said that; I didn't say that.

The SPEAKER: The member for Elizabeth is warned.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: I said that I am talking about our election commitments. The poor old member for Elizabeth comes on board when it's the second-rate questions—

The SPEAKER: Please, minister, get on with it.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: It's unfortunate for him, but when the other members on the other side, who have all been the minister for police—and there have been four of them; they have gone through them quite quickly: the leader, of course, had a go, the member for West Torrens had a go as well and the member for Light, who likes to wear a three-piece suit, he had a go as well.

Mr ODENWALDER: Point of order.

The SPEAKER: I uphold the point of order. Minister, please conclude your answer.

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD: Thank you very much. As I said at the start of the answer, that is a matter for the police commissioner.

The SPEAKER: There is nothing wrong with a three-piece suit.

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