Annual Department of Police, 2018 Report Fire and Emergency Management 2019 dpfem.tas.gov.au Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management Annual Report 2018-19 © Government of Tasmania 2019 Excerpts from this publication may be reproduced, with appropriate acknowledgement, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968. An electronic version of this report is available at www.dpfem.tas.gov.au For further information please contact: Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management 47 Liverpool Street, HOBART TAS 7000 GPO Box 308, HOBART TAS 7001 Email: [email protected] Published October 2019 ISSN: 2207-0494 (print) ISSN: 2207-508 (online) Designed by: Before Creative | Printed by Monotone Disclaimer: The information in this Annual Report 2018-19 is considered to be correct at the time of publication. Contents LETTER TO THE MINISTER 5 PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK 24 SECRETARY’S FOREWORD 6 Budget allocation 24 Output Groups 24 2018-19 YEAR IN REVIEW 7 Key Deliverables 25 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS 8 ABOUT US 9 KEY DELIVERABLES 25 Our Vision, Mission, Values and Principles 9 Corporate Governance 10 OUTPUT GROUP 1: PUBLIC SAFETY 28 Organisational Structure 11 Business Priorities 28 Priority Area – High-Visibility Policing 28 ORGANISATIONAL PROFILES 12 Priority Area – Policing Public Places 29 Tasmania Police Districts Map 12 Performance Measures 32 Southern District 12 Northern District 13 OUTPUT GROUP 2: CRIME 33 Western District 13 Education and Training 14 Business Priorities 33 Operations Support 14 Priority Area – Youth Offending 33 Professional Standards 14 Priority Area – Serious and Organised Crime 34 Special Response and Counter-Terrorism 14 Priority Area – Violence against Women and Children 38 Tasmania Fire Service 14 Priority Area – Volume Crime 40 State Emergency Service 15 Performance Measures 43 Business and Executive Services 15 Forensic Science Service Tasmania 16 OUTPUT GROUP 3: TRAFFIC POLICING 44 STRATEGIC DIRECTION FRAMEWORK 17 Business Priorities 44 Community Service 18 Priority Area – Serious and Fatal Crashes 44 Leadership 19 Priority Area – High-Risk Road Behaviour 45 People 20 Performance Measures 49 Communication 22 OUTPUT GROUP 4: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 50 Business Priorities 50 Priority Area – Provide Leadership and Effective Incident Management during Emergency Responses 50 Priority Area – Operational Preparedness 51 Performance Measures 52 Contents Continued 2018-19 COMPLIANCE INDEX 53 OUR COMPLIANCE REPORT 56 Boards and Committees 56 Corporate Governance 60 Carbon Emissions, Climate Change and Environmental Impact Initiatives 62 Legislation Administered and Enacted by the Department 64 Appeals and Reviews against Decisions made by the Department 65 Community Awareness 65 Publications 66 Right to Information and Public Interest Disclosures 67-68 Gifts, Benefits and Hospitality 68 Human Resource Statistics 69 Changes to the Organisational Structure 74 Gender Equity and Workplace Diversity 74 Ethical Conduct of Staff 76 Industrial Democracy and Employee Participation 77 Occupational Health and Safety 77 Performance Management 78 Superannuation Contributions 79 Declaration of a State of Alert Emergency Management Act 2006 80 Deaths in Custody 81 Pricing Policies 81 Asset Management and Capital Works 83 Risk Management 86 Government Procurement (Contracts with Value over $50,000) 87 Procurement from Businesses that Provide Employment to Persons with Disabilities 91 Exemptions Approved During 2018-19 in Relation to Disaggregate Contracts 91 Confidentiality of Government Contracts 91 Debts Written Off 91 Loss and Damage 91 Contact details 92 List of Tables: 2018-19 Annual Report 92 List of Figures: 2018-19 Annual Report 94 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 95 Auditor’s Report 144 Letter to the Minister Hon Mark Shelton MP Minister for Police, Fire and Emergency Management Parliament House HOBART TAS 7000 Dear Minister In accordance with the requirements of section 36(1) of the State Service Act 2000 and section 27 of the Financial Management and Audit Act 1990, I am pleased to submit for presentation to Parliament, the 2018–19 Annual Report for the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management. Yours sincerely D L Hine APM Secretary 14 October 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2018–19 5 Secretary’s Foreword Tasmania Police is committed to continually striving to Southern District focused on youth recidivists involved improve the way we do business, both in keeping the in home and vehicle burglaries. There were 796 people community safe and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of arrested during the reporting year charged with more than our own people. As a smaller jurisdiction we can respond 2,700 offences. quickly to identify and respond to crime trends and be at We have new legislative tools to target significant organised the forefront of good practice to support efficiency and crime entities including outlaw motorcycle gangs. Under effectiveness of policing services. new consorting laws, police can serve Official Warning In the past twelve months we have adopted innovative Notices to prevent convicted criminals from consorting technologies, which will disrupt criminal activity, hold to further their criminal activities. Regulations to prevent offenders to account, enhance safety, and increase prescribed criminal gangs from displaying their insignia, accountability and transparency in policing. or ‘colours’, in public places are also being developed. Project Apollo is an exciting new capability for Tasmania Tasmania Police continues to hold high levels of community Police, with 16 drone aircraft available across policing confidence. The National Survey of Community Satisfaction districts and specialist capabilities. Remote pilots with Policing 2018-19 identified that Tasmania Police can deploy the drones to support investigations and exceeds the national average in most reporting categories operations including search and rescue, crime and crash including satisfaction with policing services, feeling safe in scenes, and incidents such as sieges. public places during the day and at night, and feeling safe at home alone at night. Project Authenticate continued to deliver body worn cameras to frontline police officers across the State. In These results are only possible because of our people. We addition to enhancing officer accountability and supporting know that the challenges of policing is a risk factor that investigations, the introduction of body worn camera can impact both physical and mental health. This year, the technology has led to increased safety for frontline police Department developed the Wellbeing Program, which officers, contributing to a significant reduction of assaults will offer a suite of proactive and preventative measures against police by 21 percent. to detect and respond early to health and wellbeing risks that may be impacting our people. The Wellbeing Program The implementation of a new platform to dispatch will be a positive and supportive approach to helping our responders and resources to incidents also delivered people manage their mental and physical health. benefits to community and responder safety. In an Australian first, the Emergency Services Computer Aided I would like to thank everyone across our agency for Dispatch system brings all emergency response agencies their service and commitment to our priorities over the onto the one platform, improving information sharing and past twelve months. Thanks to their work, vision and coordination in response to incidents. dedication, the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management continues to be a trusted and effective To ensure we remain a flexible and responsive emergency response agency working to keep Tasmania a organisation, we conducted a Capability Review safe place. ‘Next Generation Policing’ to identify opportunities and challenges to meet the future policing needs of the community. Our people are being consulted on the Review prior to consideration by the Corporate Management Group. We have continued to respond effectively to crime trends D L Hine APM across the State. Tasmania’s crime rate remains stable, Secretary fluctuating between 24,000 and 28,000 offences in the last several years. There was a six percent increase in crime in 2018-19, but it’s important to understand that this followed a four percent decrease the previous year. We are agile in our response to reduce the impact of crime on Tasmanians. For example, Operation Saturate in the 6 DEPARTMENT OF POLICE, FIRE AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 2018-19 Year in Review Project Vigilance was successfully The Emergency Services Computer Aided Dispatch and Triple Zero implemented in collaboration with projects were completed providing all emergency services (Police, Fire, the Department of Justice, to trial Ambulance and State Emergency Service) with common contemporary the electronic monitoring of high- dispatch and call receipt systems, supported by a single business unit within risk family violence perpetrators. the Department of Police, Fire and Emergency Management. Project Authenticate continued to explore The Department sought interest to develop a contemporary how body-worn cameras can be used to whole-of-government radio network to support all emergency make audio-visual recordings of victim services, land management bodies and the electricity industry. statements, particularly in relation to family The outcome of this market approach will be known in 2019-20. violence incidents. The capability of Tasmania