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Speaker 1: Right to the police. Apparently fifty seven percent of our

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Speaker 1: serving police officers have thought about resigning in the last year.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is according to a Police Association survey that found

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Speaker 1: pay and stress are the big factors behind that. Steve,

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Speaker 1: what is the Police Association president?

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Speaker 3: Hi?

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Speaker 1: Steve calli Keery, Heather. It happens all the time, mate,

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Speaker 1: It happens all the time. But it was a claimer. Now,

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Speaker 1: is this real? Do you think or is this just

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Speaker 1: a passing thought and they've ticked the box.

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Speaker 2: No, it's absolutely real, and it just highlights what pressure

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Speaker 2: our officers are under.

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Speaker 3: The jobs are risky jobs.

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Speaker 2: It weighs heavily on our members' mental and emotional wellbeing,

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Speaker 2: and this is just a manifestation of the frustration and

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Speaker 2: the pressure that our members are under.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that it is worse than previous years.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to tell.

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Speaker 2: It's the first first time that we've asked this question,

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Speaker 2: and the reason that we asked it was that there

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Speaker 2: was anecdotal evidence coming from our members that there was

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Speaker 2: a growing number that we're looking at leaving, so we

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Speaker 2: wanted to test that and this was the first year

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Speaker 2: that we did so. So it's hard to compare it

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Speaker 2: to other years, but sixty percent or neither on. Sixty

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Speaker 2: percent is definitely a concerning number.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Now, Police HQ says everything's fine. The attrition rates

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Speaker 1: about five percent and heaps of people are coming back

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Speaker 1: from Australia and rejoining the force. What do you say

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Speaker 1: to that.

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Speaker 3: This isn't a number that can be ignored.

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Speaker 2: What the police and the government need to understand is

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Speaker 2: that there's reasons behind such a big number. Whilst they

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Speaker 2: may not be leaving yet, there's obviously a huge amount

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Speaker 2: of sentiment in behind a sixty percent You know number

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Speaker 2: of police that have contemplated leaving that can't be ignored.

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Speaker 1: Can you just fix it with pay or do you

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Speaker 1: need something else here?

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Speaker 3: There's a number of issues.

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Speaker 2: Pays obviously a very big one, but it's also about resourcing,

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Speaker 2: making sure that police have the numbers in the right place,

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Speaker 2: so that our members aren't having to do over time,

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Speaker 2: they're not having to work alone, they going to up

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Speaker 2: where they need to.

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Speaker 3: So it's a whole raft of things.

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Speaker 2: But ultimately one of the main reasons, how I mean,

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Speaker 2: the signal that they were looking to leave was pay.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, it's good to talk to you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you mate, Steve what Police Association President.

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