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Attorney-General for the ACT

Legislative Assembly Question

No. 326

Summer Nationals

Mr Connolly - asked the Attorney-General:

1. How many police officers were involved in the policing of

the Summer Street Car Nationals last New Year.

2. What was the exact cost of such policing.

3. How many police officers will be involved in the policing of the next Summer Nationals.

Mr Collaery - the answer to the Memberss question is as follows:

1. I am advised that between 0900 Thursday 28 December 1989

and early 1 January 1990 approximately 170 police

officers were involved in the policing of the Summer

Street Car Nationals. While a more accurate figure could

be provided from daily duty sheets, which are currently

archived, these would need to be manually extracted and

the task of obtaining such figures would be a costly,

time consuming and labour intensive exercise.

2. For the reasons mentioned in my answer to part (1), the

costing for the event is also difficult to ascertain,

however, overtime payments totalled approximately $87,495

and penalties approximately $23,000.

3. There were 268 police officers involved in policing the

1990 Summer Nationals held between 27 December- and

30 December 1990.

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