Western Australian Current Acts

POLICE ACT 1892 - SECT 39I

39I .         Regulations prescribing amounts chargeable for police services at major events

        (1)         Without limiting section 138A, regulations may be made under that section prescribing the amounts chargeable for the provision of police services under this Part or the method of calculating those amounts.

        (2)         The amounts, or the method of calculating the amounts, are to be prescribed on a cost-recovery basis, and (to avoid doubt) both the costs of the Police Force and the costs of the Department may be recovered.

        (3)         Without limiting subsection (2), the costs that may be recovered include the following —

            (a)         the personnel costs associated with the time spent by a police officer in planning the deployment of police officers for an event;

            (b)         the personnel costs associated with the police officers who attend an event to provide police services;

            (c)         the overhead expenses associated with the provision of police services for an event.

        (4)         For the purpose of determining the personnel costs of police officers attending an event, the regulations may prescribe or provide for —

            (a)         different hourly rates for police officers of different ranks; or

            (b)         a standard hourly rate for a police officer regardless of rank, and (without limitation) the standard hourly rate may be an average of the hourly rates of the police officers of various ranks who would normally be required to attend a major event.

        (5)         The regulations may specify or provide for the payment of a minimum amount to recover costs unavoidably incurred by the Police Force or the Department where —

            (a)         an event is cancelled or postponed or runs for a shorter period than expected; or

            (b)         the number of police officers assigned to provide police services for an event is reduced at short notice at the request of the promoter or organiser of the event, and in that case the minimum amount applies even though the number of police officers who attend the event is fewer than the minimum number referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of major event in section 39F.

        [Section 39I inserted: No. 12 of 2011 s. 4.]