What is the latest information on the Governments salary negotiations with the New South Wales Police Association?
Mr WHELAN: The honourable member for Londonderry, who has an abiding interest in police matters, has asked a most important question. From the outset I wish to say on behalf of the Government how much the Government supports the great work done by the men and women of the New South Wales Police Service, a police service that has just completed and received world acclaim for its role in organising the security of the Olympic Games, a police service that recently achieved the Australian Financial Review IT Award, a police service whose power installations at Lithgow and Tuggerah have also just won an award and, as honourable members have heard in this Chamber, a police service that received international recognition and first-class status from the FBI itself. It is not often that I am embarrassed, but the remark of the honourable member for Epping that he cannot trust the New South Wales Police Service will go down and be remembered by every hard-working police officer in the State of Ne
