Increased pressures and a lack of police resources have led to priority one call-out response times nearly doubling over the past five years – including a 165 per cent increase in response times from the Casuarina police station – the union representing the NT’s police officers has said.
The shocking statistics, which have never been publicly revealed before, were tendered to court during the coronial inquest into the murder of domestic violence campaigner Kumarn Rubuntja, part of a larger inquiry into domestic violence issues facing the NT.
There is a Sgt to constable ratio of one to three, ridiculous, See if you can get a list by rank and numbers in each rank. It looks to be based on a banana republic army as far as brass goes, How many of these scarce constables are posted to general duties?