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Speaker 1: We've just adopted basically a hope, wait and see approach

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Speaker 1: to policing in this country. This at a time when

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Speaker 1: crime is out of control. People don't feel safe in

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Speaker 1: their own homes, they don't feel safe in city streets.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty thousand retail crimes were reported last year,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand, and despite their best efforts,

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Speaker 1: our comps are struggling to keep up, and they've just

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Speaker 1: been delivered what I think is basically a slap in

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Speaker 1: the face for in terms of pay by the government.

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Speaker 1: The Police Association has lost its final offer arbitration over

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Speaker 1: pay increases, meaning the government. One Chris Carhill says he

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Speaker 1: can now only quote hope that officers won't move to

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Speaker 1: Australia en mass, where pay is way higher and conditions

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Speaker 1: are much better, well certainly in some states. On the

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Speaker 1: face of it, the offer actually looks pretty good, along

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Speaker 1: with a lump sum and overtime being paid, which is

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Speaker 1: not to be scoffed at. The increases are actually four

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Speaker 1: percent from July first backdated and four percent from July

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Speaker 1: twenty five. And if we believe Adrian Or and Coe's

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Speaker 1: predictions about inflation hitting the target of one to three

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Speaker 1: percent later this year. Then the increase that the police

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Speaker 1: get will actually beat inflation, which sounds pretty good, right,

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Speaker 1: not when you consider the shite sandwich that they've been

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Speaker 1: dealt in the past few years. Under labor inflation was

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Speaker 1: out of control. It was out as out of control

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Speaker 1: as crime. You could say. It was running at about

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Speaker 1: six to seven percent, and during that time police annual

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Speaker 1: pay increased only about three and a half percent. The

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Speaker 1: police union says it basically had to suck it up

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Speaker 1: take the deal because if they went for more, it

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Speaker 1: might mean job cuts. And we've just spoken to the

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Speaker 1: police minister. He says he wouldn't have let that happen.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, how do you know. So do we

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Speaker 1: want fewer higher paid cops or more lower paid cops?

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Speaker 1: The reality is that we might get the worst of

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Speaker 1: both worlds if they upsticks and cross the ditch, fewer

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Speaker 1: of them and the rest feeling underpaid and overworked. For

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