Providing a voice for responsible scanner users in Western Australia
https://warsug.info/
And to be technically technical, about 36% of the area of WA is also crown landNafenn wrote:Just to be arrogantly technical, The airport is Crown Land
andAviation security, and in particular the policing of Australia’s principal airports, has been a subject of Commonwealth/State controversy since 1970. Following the application of state criminal laws (as Commonwealth law) to airports in that year, the Commonwealth has made a number of attempts to extricate itself from the policing of airports, recognising a strong link between criminal threats to airports, the local criminal milieu and state police capabilities, while simultaneously acknowledging its responsibilities under international law for aviation security. It has never succeeded in passing responsibility completely and clearly to the states.
Over the years this has led to what is described as a hybrid model, with the Commonwealth providing the funding and Protective Service Officers while State police forces provide the bulk of the sworn police members. Even with generous Commonwealth support not all States have been either willing or able to provide the pledged level of staffing. Successive reviews have been critical of the complexity of these hybrid arrangements recommending either an ‘All Out’ approach in which the States/Territories accept responsibility for airport policing, or an ‘All In’ approach in which the Commonwealth provides an integrated airport policing capability.
Based on what's in the report, and the AFP website above, I'd say that by 2014, the AFP will have sole responsibility for managing policing within Perth Airport. There may be cases where the WA Police are also involved, but I think the AFP will be the "lead agency" and have ultimate responsibility.The Audit has reluctantly concluded, acknowledging it is a view not shared by a number of chief police officers, that the ‘All In’ model is likely to be more sustainable in the long run. In reaching this conclusion the Audit had particular regard to Commonwealth international obligations, its broader responsibilities concerning the regulation of aviation and airports more generally, its legal capacity in relation to all Australia’s principal airports to put any issues of AFP powers beyond doubt, and the public expectation of consistently high standards and approaches to aviation security across the nation. The ‘All In’ model also represents significant cost savings to the Commonwealth. Accordingly it has recommended the Commonwealth should vigorously pursue the replacement of the existing Unified Policing Model with an ‘All In’ model under which the Commonwealth accepts the responsibility of funding and staffing nationally coordinated airport security and policing services, noting that this will likely take several years before being fully operational. It should take any legislative action, or pursue the renegotiation of arrangements in a number of states and territories, to ensure that the powers of AFP members policing airports are clear and adequate to the task.
eg Beaches (and the dunes) which can be policed by various authorities at various timesZebedee wrote: And to be technically technical, about 36% of the area of WA is also crown land
(You can have crown land that's vested in either the state or the commonwealth. State crown land includes things such as conservation reserves, pastoral leases and other such things.)
they always have been...dazla wrote:AFP are now resonpsible for community policing at Perth Airport and within the Airport Precinct.