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South Australia Police

The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee) (14:35): My question is to the Minister for Police. Will there be any costs to event organisers for policing events at Adelaide Oval?

The Hon. C.L. WINGARD (Gibson—Minister for Police, Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (14:35): I thank the member for the question, and I think the Treasurer has outlined the user-pays scheme in some of his dialogue.

What we are trying to do with this scheme, just to be abundantly clear in case the member isn't aware, is that police will provide police services as they always do. They provide police services for free right across our state. What we want to look at here is where people excessively use police services over and above for their own security purposes. This is something that happens in all the mainland states, and it's a model that we are looking to adopt here.

What we do see is that people who are having events—let's say it's a rave party or an event where they think there might be the use of drugs or excessive alcohol—are phoning police and saying, 'We need you to come and provide this extra security for our event.' So what we are going to do is the police are putting a model in place. They are going to work with event organisers to make sure that the general services are provided and, if they need over and above, then we can look at a user-pays scheme.

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