There will be 30 additional police officers, 21 extra police liquor-licensing inspectors and “compliance officers”, as well as10 extra security guards in public areas across Alice Springs in the next two years, the federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has said.

Mr Dreyfus said in a statement the move would cost $14.2 million and was part of the Albanese Government’s $48.8 million community safety package for Alice Springs. He did not explain what compliance officers were.

The Territory Government has made no announcement about the deal with the Federal Government.

Further details on the federal money for the extra officers was not disclosed, including where the government expects to find the additional officers, after claims by police that they were 300 officers short already amid record attrition rates.

It was also not made clear whether the money formed part of the $250 million promised by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when the pressure of out-of-control crime in Alice Springs making it into the national media led to a last minute visit to the town at the end of January. His visit forced Chief Minister Natasha Fyles to temporarily ban alcohol in Aboriginal communities and town camps and increase restrictions further on alcohol sales in Alice Springs.

At the time, NT police statistics showed property offences jumped by almost 60 per cent over the previous 12 months, while reported assaults had increased by 38 per cent along with reported domestic violence assaults by 48 per cent.

Aboriginal community alcohol bans ended on July 17 last year, after the end of the federal Stronger Futures legislation, which the Fyles Government replaced with its own legislation allowing alcohol in the communities again on an opt-out system. Few communities opted out of allowing drinking.

The NT Government has recently extended takeaway alcohol restrictions in Alice Springs for another three months, claiming that the bans were helping drive down alcohol-related harm, but admitted that the amount of data is small and more evidence would be needed to expand the restrictions elsewhere.

The NT government has also allotted an additional $20 million— as part of Budget 2023—to curb record domestic, family, and sexual violence cases in the Territory. A total of $10 million in funds will be available this year, and the other half for next year to cover costs of anti-DFSV initiatives.

The funding forms part of the second phase of the government’s 10-year Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Reduction Framework and will support Action Plan 2, which is due for release in July 2023.