Ms BADGER – Minister, I appreciate this might be something we need to take on notice, but can you please outline for the committee how many FTE positions in both Police and the TFS in the last financial year and this financial year to date have been subject to recruitment freezes, targeted negotiated voluntary redundancies or any other form of redundancies, and any other vacancy management or workforce renewal initiative resulting in positions being either eliminated or deliberately unfilled?
Mr ELLIS – Thanks, Ms Badger, I’ll pass to Tasmania Police for the specifics of the data.
Ms ADAMS – Thank you, minister. In terms of redundancies and WRIPs, there have been none. In terms of the recruitment freeze, I think it has been publicly noted in the media that we were an agency that actually increased our numbers during the recruitment freeze as opposed to reducing our numbers. However, we have 10 roles that weren’t approved for filling during the period of the freeze. Those roles are assessed by our vacancy establishment team, which is chaired by the deputy secretary and has the relevant operational lead representative on that committee, so there have been 10 roles that haven’t been approved for filling. That doesn’t mean that those positions have been abolished in any way, it just means they haven’t been approved for filling at this time.
Ms BADGER – Am I able, at this stage, to get any data from TFS on notice, given they’re not at the table, minister?
Ms ADAMS – That is inclusive.
Ms BADGER – I apologise.
Ms ADAMS – So that is the department; I’ve got my secretary hat on at the moment.
