Key Issues
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
