law
1 Nov 2023

New $26 million police plan aims to fix resourcing issues

From Morning Report, 7:39 am on 1 November 2023

The police are trying to get officers back on to the front line, after they were diverted to help courts facing a growing backlog of jury trials.

Police's own problems with lack of resources and disclosing evidence on time to lawyers have led to trials being delayed or even aborted.

Their new $26 million plan aims to fix all that.

Phil Pennington spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.