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high standard; if so, (a) are these statements incompatible, (b) why are results not the appropriate measure of a team’s success and (c) what are the quality measures otherwise;

(6) Does page 43 refer to a 21st birthday in Wanniassa and state that a police member fired two shots at the vehicle in an attempt to prevent it from leaving the scene and that a full review of the event was undertaken by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Professional Standards Team as a result of the discharge of the police firearm; if so, (a) what was the result of the review and (b) what findings were made about the ACT Policing officers firing in a public street;

(7) Does page 46 state that the Special Response and Security Planning Team coordinated 68 events, however these events appear to be overwhelmingly Federal Government oriented; if so, (a) why is the ACT paying for the activity in relation to VIP tours including Presidents of Indonesia and Israel, China Chairman, Prime Minister of Vietnam, Royal visits by Britain and Denmark and (b) why is the ACT paying for Prime Minister’s XI cricket;

(8) Does page 53, table 2.19, state that the number of road crashes resulting in death per 100 000 population was 54.0% above the target, and the number of road crashes resulting in injury per 100 000 population was 32.6% above target; if so, (a) would a greater effort by ACT Policing on road safety improve these results and (b) why did the strategic planning retreat not identify road safety as highly important;

(9) Does page 54 state that “during 2004-2005 the incidents of vehicles performing burnouts in suburban areas and incidents of road rage became more prevalent, significant media attention”; if so, (a) was significant media attention the reason that Operation Globin was set up or was it intended to delete these words during proofreading, and the words were missed because there was no checking of the text after corrections;

(10) Why did the strategic retreat not decide to focus on driving offences in 2005-06 given comments on page 57 that state, regarding driver behaviour, that the results for the ACT are disturbing, with the ACT exceeding the national average for speed, intoxication and fatigue;

(11) Why are the number of breath tests for the month of April so low, especially given the Easter holiday period in April as outlined on page 57, table 2.13;

(12) What is ACT Policing doing to urgently address the problem of community satisfaction regarding community programs as referred to on page 59 in which the report notes that the percentage of people satisfied or very satisfied with police support for community programs was 57.7%, down 14.2%, and below the national average of 67.3%;

(13) Is the Coroner’s Office part of ACT Policing or the AFP;

(14) If the Coroner’s Office is part of the AFP why is it included in this report;

(15) If the Coroner’s Office is part of ACT Policing why did the Coroner’s Office do 60 NSW deaths;

(16) Is the ACT Government recompensed for the Coroner’s Office training AFP members;

(17) Does page 70 state that 760 people go missing in the ACT in a year; if so, (a) is this number considered to be high, (b) what is the explanation for this high number, (c) why has the definition of missing persons been changed and (d) why is it considered reasonable to define people with mental health problems as absconders;


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