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Speaker 1: Heather Duplessy Allen, This next story might wind you up

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Speaker 1: a little bit. The New South Wales Police Force is

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Speaker 1: celebrating today because twenty one experienced cops they've poached to

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Speaker 1: graduating and seven of those officers were stolen from New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: The New South Wales Police Minister is Yasmin Katle Yasmin.

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Speaker 1: Good to talk to you again.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good afternoon, Heather, and good afternoon to your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Now, yesman, I know you want to wind us up,

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Speaker 1: but I'm going to say to you that this was

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Speaker 1: a flop because you only got seven.

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Speaker 2: Ah yes, but there'll be more to come. We've had

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Speaker 2: more than one hundred applications for our professional Mobility program

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Speaker 2: and those over the ditch are very very keen to

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Speaker 2: come over here and be part of the best police

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Speaker 2: force in the country and indeed probably in the world,

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Speaker 2: the New South Wales Police Force.

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Speaker 1: But how many of those one hundred are you actually

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Speaker 1: going to end up taking.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, we had a third of today's a station

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Speaker 2: came from New Zealand and I met all of them

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Speaker 2: this morning. They're very excited to be here, be part

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Speaker 2: of what is the third largest police force in the world.

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Speaker 2: So you know, their opportunities are just endless, and they're

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Speaker 2: very happy to attest and be part of that. They

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Speaker 2: enjoyed their training and they're looking forward to going out

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Speaker 2: to where they've been placed. Right around New South Wales.

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Speaker 1: I see you're poaching, as you say, obviously from us,

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Speaker 1: but also from other states. Looks to me like a

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Speaker 1: few of the other states are getting annoyed at you guys,

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Speaker 1: are they?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, look, we're shameless. We make no apology for

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Speaker 2: poaching or any police from anywhere. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you want to be part of the best police

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Speaker 2: force and you come to New South Wales, the opportunities

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Speaker 2: there are limitless. You know, we've got that state of

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Speaker 2: origin over here, as you well know, heather between Queensland

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Speaker 2: and New South Wales, and looks like we're creating with

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Speaker 2: a few other borders now and indeed also across the ditch.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, what I find fascinating is

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Speaker 1: that regardless of all of these efforts by yourselves, you're

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Speaker 1: still facing shortages which we are facing, which apparently everybody's facing.

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Speaker 1: What's going on that we are losing cops from our

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Speaker 1: respective police forces.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I don't think it's just police though. To

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Speaker 2: be fair, we've got nearly record employment here in Australia,

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Speaker 2: so we're competing against every other industry, just as you

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Speaker 2: would be, and as is happening globally. So we're just

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Speaker 2: having to make you know, incentivize people coming into the

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Speaker 2: New South Wales Police Force and making it very attractive

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Speaker 2: for them. We did give them a historic pay rise

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Speaker 2: in New South Wales last year, which now they're the

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Speaker 2: best paid police in this country, which was very significant

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Speaker 2: because their wages were going backward under the previous government

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Speaker 2: and you know, so by giving them the pay rise

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Speaker 2: was critically important for it as a retention piece, and

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Speaker 2: we're seeing that we're seeing some green shoots from that

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Speaker 2: already they're not leaving as much as they were. But

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Speaker 2: this mobility program, in all seriousness, it really is important.

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Speaker 2: The skills that some of the people there today are

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Speaker 2: bringing with them. You know, you have to be in

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Speaker 2: the force for you know, ten fifteen years and they're

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Speaker 2: coming over able to enter the New South Wales Police

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Speaker 2: Force at that level. Now that didn't happen eighteen months ago.

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Speaker 2: Well actually even blessed that twelve months ago you actually

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Speaker 2: had to start as a probationary constable again. So these

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Speaker 2: are the sorts of innovative ideas that we've introduced to

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Speaker 2: encourage those from anywhere to come to New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: But we've also done some structural change internally as well,

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Speaker 2: so they are promoted earlier now and those sorts of

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Speaker 2: things like you have to have a really attractive offer

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Speaker 2: and then you have to make sure that you retain

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Speaker 2: them and you have to look after them. We've also

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Speaker 2: set up a health and wellbeing unit to look after

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Speaker 2: their welfare.

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Speaker 1: Brilliant stuff. Yes, we men, thanks so much for talking

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Speaker 1: to us. I'm sure we'll be talking to you again.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll be frothing for that opportunity. Yasman Catley,

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Speaker 1: new South Wales Police Minister. For more from Heather Duplessy

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