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Speaker 1: That's good the police. They've been spending up large on marketing.

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Speaker 1: In the twelve months since the Commissioner, Richard Chambers took office,

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Speaker 1: two point seven six million dollars was spent on a

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Speaker 1: big recruitment marketing campaign. That is double the previous year.

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Speaker 1: Commissioner says it's money well spent. There were seven hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighty eight graduates from Police College last year and

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Speaker 1: attrition fell to four point nine percent. Steve what is

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Speaker 1: the Police Association president? He's with me now, Steve good Evening,

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Speaker 1: got a right money well spent? You agree with the commissioner.

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Speaker 2: No, not particularly. Look, any organization has to spend a

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Speaker 2: bit of money in order to make themselves attractive. But

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Speaker 2: when we're still struggling to get the five hundred officer target,

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Speaker 2: you'd have to wonder if that was money well spent.

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Speaker 1: I mean it would take a while, wouldn't it for

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Speaker 1: those applications to be put in, for them to be reviewed,

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Speaker 1: and then to actually get bums on seats.

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Speaker 2: Look, there is that that time that it takes in

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Speaker 2: order to get that done. What we've got to remember, though,

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Speaker 2: is that they are getting a slurry of applications, but

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Speaker 2: out of those applications, actually only six percent make it

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Speaker 2: through to police college. So although they're getting probably a

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Speaker 2: lot more applications through the door, in reality, those that

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Speaker 2: are getting into college are a lot less.

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Speaker 1: You've got to get the word out done you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we want more cops. How to how are people to know?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, only six percent, But if it's

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Speaker 1: six percent of five hundred people versus six percent of

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Speaker 1: one thousand, you're better to have more applicants, don't you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I get it. You do need to spend money

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Speaker 2: in order to get people through the door. That's an

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Speaker 2: absolute no brainer. In any organization needs to do that,

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Speaker 2: and the police is certainly no different. What you've got

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Speaker 2: to ask yourself the question is is this been being

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Speaker 2: for buck?

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Speaker 1: And you don't think it is?

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Speaker 2: Not? Overly? I think, you know, when we've got a

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Speaker 2: number of stations that require new rooms resourcing that's Reququie

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Speaker 2: out there on the front line resourcing for the police employees.

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Speaker 2: Maybe we could have spent that money, or police could

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Speaker 2: have spent that money a little bit differently and still

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Speaker 2: got really good results through a recruitment campaign with maybe

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Speaker 2: a few less funds.

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Speaker 1: Steve appreciate your time Steve want Police Association President. For

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