The NSW Police Association has received no assurance of State Government support for its recommendation of a 3000 increase in officer numbers.
Police Minister Carl Scully said such an increase would be hard to obtain or to justify. “Its a hard to obtain number, it is not small and I really want to give the union the courtesy of having a detailed meeting with them and working through their submission,” Mr Scully said.
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Indeed, police numbers were more likely dictated by the bean-counting bureaucrats under Police Minister Carl "Sparkles" Scully.
Although not widely known, the police ministry wields awesome power throughout the NSW police. So much so that most of the big decisions are made by so-called experts within the ministry and usually based on cost.
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