Police Providing Unreliable Spending Information to Parliament
September 4, 2022
The report - newly released under the OIA - said without a clear and coordinated process “it was difficult to identify and verify the completeness and accuracy of police’s C and C [contractor and consultant] use and costs”.
Police were not counting their spending on fixed-term or temporary contractors to backfill or support existing roles, which cost almost $7 million in 2018-19. If they had, their total C and C spend that year would have been $51m, not the $44m they reported to a parliamentary select committee.