NT Police officers need ‘safe places’ away from major police stations where members can receive counselling and the government needs to fully fund and staff a wellbeing team to deliver preventative and responsive services, the union representing the NT’s cops said, while the Police Minister has refused to provide more details around proposed new wellbeing services for officers.
The comments from NTPA president Nathan Finn came in response to Tuesday’s announcement by Chief Minister Eva Lawler, Police Minister Brent Potter, and Acting Assistant Commissioner for People and Wellbeing Hege Burns, of new wellbeing initiatives, less than six weeks out from the general election, saying police stations were being visited by psychologists, there were developing a peer support training resources portal.
Of course all of this is on the “If we win” wish list.