PANSW President Kevin Morton was today notified by the General Secretary of the Public Service Association, which represents the state's rank and file prison officers, of their intention to stop work for a 48-hour period in relation to the inadequate sentencing of an offender following the serious assault of a number of Prison Officers in 2024.
“As police, we are well aware of the effect that the lack of support from the judiciary has on a workforce. My members have been let down on numerous occasions, the public generally has been let down, and now it appears that prison officers have been brought into the equation on several occasions in the last few months, leading to this action”. PANSW President Kevin Morton said.
“Any attacks on law enforcement, or any public official performing a role to protect the community, should be dealt with in the harshest terms by the judiciary, not the opposite, as seen in this and many cases that affect my members”.
"NSW Police will be affected by this stop-work action in prisoner management. I am today working with the Commissioner and the Government to ensure that additional police are recalled to duty, with no impact on frontline policing and first response police are not required to manage prisoners usually attended to by Corrective Services."
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