{"id":30871,"date":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/police-minister-defends-broken-promise\/"},"modified":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T00:00:00","slug":"police-minister-defends-broken-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/police-minister-defends-broken-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Police minister defends broken promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mike Smithson and Police Minister Peter Malinauskas have clashed on FIVEAA breakfast after the minister dismissed as \u201ccynical\u201d suggestions he is using the issue of overseas recruiting to delay a promise to increase police numbers.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not being cynical, I\u2019m just saying that seems to be the view looking in \u2013 a very logical point of view, I would\u2019ve thought,\u201d Smitho told the minister on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For the third time since 2014, a Weatherill government promise to recruit 313 extra police officers has been delayed and now won\u2019t be achieved until 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe advice that the police commissioner gave me was that in order to be able to reach the target by 2018 it would need to recruit overseas in order to be able to get there,\u201d Mr Malinauskas said.<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/273228982&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just didn\u2019t think any South Australian really wants to see these sorts of jobs go to people overseas. If we can avoid it, we should be putting the effort into making sure those jobs stay locally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Mark Carroll from the police union says an officer hasn\u2019t been recruited from overseas in the last four years and the move is a government diversion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s just a smokescreen to divert attention away from yet another broken promise on police numbers by Jay Weatherill,\u201d Mr Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nothing but spin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Malinauskas said he didn\u2019t accept that argument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSAPOL have been working pretty hard, as I understand it, recruiting people over the least few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice numbers are still up. We\u2019ve got the largest police force we\u2019ve ever had. Our commitment to policing is second to none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said it was \u201cbetter to delay by two years rather than honour a political timeline at the expense of sending high-quality jobs overseas\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR RIGHT NOW<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/sa-man-killed-by-falling-tree\"><strong>SA MAN KILLED BY FALLING TREE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/daniel-talia-s-post-game-confession\"><strong>DANIEL TALIA\u2019S POST-GAME CONFESSION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Smithson and Police Minister Peter Malinauskas have clashed on FIVEAA breakfast after the minister dismissed as \u201ccynical\u201d suggestions he is using the issue of overseas recruiting to delay a promise to increase police numbers. \u201cI\u2019m not being cynical, I\u2019m just saying that seems to be the view looking in \u2013 a very logical point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v20.2.1) - 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