Current key national issues include -

Police Resourcing

  -   Federal Government commitments

• Federal audit of police capabilities
• National Police Workforce Planning study
• National Police White Paper - 2020 Summit White Paper on Community Security
• AFP Numbers

  -   Airport Policing

  -   Indigenous intervention

  -   Retention strategies

• Superannuation issues including:  adequacy of superannuation for members; and superannuation preservation age requirements
• Salary Packaging (capped FBT)

Professional Issues

  -   Police professional registration

  -   Police mobility across jurisdictions

  -   Police powers and their erosion

  -   Police uniform and equipment standards

  -   CrimTrac & related issues

  -   Innovative Grants Program

  -   Policing indigenous communities

  -   Dealing with the mentally ill

National Industrial Relations Issues

  -   Future federal IR system and its impact on police

  -   Award Modernisation

  -   Harmonisation of OH&S legislation

  -   Harmonisation of Workers' Compensation

  -   Police @ Work project with Sydney University

  -   Child care options & tax relief

  -   Coordination of industrial issues across jurisdictions

Collaborative purchasing of uniforms and equipment

Encouraging greater female participation in police unions through the PFA's Womens' Advisory Committee

Overseas Workers' Compensation Scheme for Police

  -   International Deployment Group issues

Federal Government's Review of Taxation

National Human Rights Consultation

Proposed National Police Service Medal

Members & Senators Policing Program

Development of Police Unions in the South Pacific