 afternoon everyone. How are you? Are we okay at the back? Everyone's okay. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen thank you for being here this afternoon. Obviously the FUD commission of inquiry interim report has been released this morning. The Premier has already given a whole of government response but I'm certainly happy to talk about those recommendations which may relate to the Queensland Police Service. As you know there's about 104 of the recommendations of a total of about 175 that relate to the state government and a number of those do relate to us in the Queensland Police Service. In particular there is a recommendation in relation to better training for our call takers in in the Police Communications Centre role particularly to do with triple O calls and we accept that we have work to do in that area and we have been working on that issue and will continue to develop up the appropriate training mechanisms. But these were extraordinary times that we all faced and certainly I think the report also highlights that there was significant and very professional work done by emergency services generally. I'm happy to take any of your comments in relation to the the comments in the report. I'm sorry could you? What is Senior Constable Wheeler doing? Senior Constable Wheeler is performing duties in the Thornborough area. These are administrative mainly in nature and he will continue to do that until such time as the disciplinary investigation is completed. That call was probably one of the most distressing elements of the entire flood inquiry process came from that. Are you concerned about what that has done in that one instance to the reputation of Queensland Police? Certainly the very vast majority of our officers go to work every day simply to do they're very very best for the community of Queensland. Sometimes we don't get it quite right and yes a single incident can impact on the reputation of our organization and we understand that and that's why we have processes in place to deal with that. We have a discipline process which is currently underway and that's and it is underway meaning that it is the investigation is still ongoing. So it's hard for me to comment on the specifics of the Wheeler matter in that regard but certainly we are taking action as the Commission of Inquiry has recommended to train all of our call takers perhaps more appropriately in dealing with those sorts of instances. I will also say though and I'll clarify that I understand the Commission of Inquiry did accept that that the nature of the call that was taken by Mr Wheeler was in extraordinary circumstances and they and that was accepted but I noticed that the Inquiry report does say that it that the response did not meet the standard that even we would expect. What changes to the training program around the way? The focus of the recommendation is for better and consistent training of call takers understanding the situation perhaps even better. Obviously our officers do undertake some training but the inquiry certainly demonstrated that there were variations in that training across the state and we need to be more consistent in that regard. Absolutely well I think part of it is assisting our officers to understand perhaps better the significant stress that individual callers are often under and and then a process that we can elicit more information from those people that is relevant to the particular case. Do you have the resources needed to do this new training? No we have a very large training organization within our within the Queensland Police Service and I am sure that we can cope with the type of training that's required. There is a time issue in in relation to this obviously and we will look at that in the coming weeks. Well that's going to be a critical time frame for us to achieve this outcome. When you look at some of the recommendations in relation to things specific councils might have to do and then their level of organisation. Presumably that's going to put a significant additional burden on policing resources in some of those locations. My understanding of most of those recommendations that relate to local government will require significant work by our DDCs in particular so our district disaster coordinators these are the people who are officers in charge of the local districts. Certainly there is that issue but as a result of the review of disaster management arrangements in Queensland that occurred some two years ago now and of course we know that the legislation changed last year. There was also the requirement for executive officers these are police officers who assist the district officer. We have numerous of those in place now as as we have moved through and implemented the review recommendations. They specifically will be tasked with many of these tasks of dealing with those recommendations in conjunction with their local their local disaster management group arrangements. Have you spoken with John Tyson about what you're doing in terms of police training? Certainly there was a number of discussions with Mr Tyson early in early in the events. I can't advise you whether or not we've been back to him of recent times bearing in mind that the report was embargoed until today and was only released today but there are there is the opportunity for us now to have that conversation. Do you intend to do that? I'll certainly be talking to the local assistant commissioner in relation to that. What would you say in this conversation? I think it's appropriate that he be made aware of exactly what we are going to do to try and improve our systems and processes. What's your personal view on that call? I have many personal views on many things but as I said to you earlier there is an ongoing discipline investigation. I may be one of the decision makers in that process. It is possible and therefore I don't intend to comment further on that process today. More broadly what do you hope comes out of this report and how it can improve relations between police and the other emergency authorities? I actually think we have probably the best relationships we could hope for with the other emergency services. I think there's a lot more work to be done in relation to intraoperability. Communication flows that sort of thing and whilst the Commissioner of Inquiry recommendations haven't specifically looked at that on this occasion that may be the focus into the future because as you know they have some months to run yet but the relationship the trust relationships that have built up between ourselves and the other emergency services I think were fundamental and basic to the successes that we had in managing the response and the recovery phases to the flooding and cyclone events of Christmas. Will you change the police boundaries to a lot more administrative? We have a project underway in relation to exactly that. As many of you know a couple of years ago the many of the councils were amalgamated and that has caused some changes in the boundaries that we deal with but at the end of the day our operational boundaries in other words our district and regional boundaries in particular are fundamental to providing appropriate policing services. The legislation change that occurred after the 2009 review for the Disaster Management Act has also given us the ability to be flexible with a boundary for a disaster so if it occurs in a defined area it doesn't matter where the disaster district boundary is we can actually draw a line around it and have that approved and that becomes the disaster area so there is great flexibility with the with the disaster area but we see some benefit in wherever it is appropriate to align our district boundaries with current LGA local government boundaries as well. No it's well sorry it depends which which we're told you're talking about I think the toll is 35 overall. No it doesn't there's still not declared deceased. Certainly there are processes for that to go through I will not give you an end date I'm sorry in relation to that investigation but it is ongoing. The report found that the isolated communities didn't have trouble sourcing supplies but are there better procedures now in place or will there be better procedures to resupply people? One of the concepts that was looked into by the Commission of Inquiry and in fact became obvious through the debriefs that were undertaken by the various agencies involved was this idea of potentially having stockpiles of equipment up and down the coast so that we had you know for instance in the far north we would have a significant stockpile central region a significant stockpile down here in the southeast that's being examined and my understanding is that the facility in Townsville as I understand it is being supplied for just that eventuality but these things do take a little time to organize and the logistics behind that are quite incredible so when you think about what has to be there or not there the evacuation centers are totally different circumstance in many respects and there is a working party that's been looking at those through emergency services and perhaps you could see comment from them but we have been involved on that working party to try and enhance safety shelters evacuation centers the guidelines that sit around those folks that looks like it thank you very much for being here today nothing else that you wish to discuss no thank you