{"id":17729,"date":"2022-08-12T18:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=17729"},"modified":"2022-08-12T18:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:28:12","slug":"new-bill-to-better-protect-our-frontline-emergency-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/08\/12\/new-bill-to-better-protect-our-frontline-emergency-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"New bill to better protect our frontline emergency workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Legislation with new offences with tough penalties for offenders who assault frontline health and emergency services workers has been introduced to Parliament by the NSW Government.
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Attorney General Mark Speakman said every person should be able to feel safe in their workplace, including health and emergency services workers who perform an essential public service for our community, in difficult circumstances and often at personal risk.
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\u201cActs of violence on emergency services and frontline workers in the course of their duties are unacceptable,\u201d Mr Speakman said.
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\u201cThose who perpetrate disgraceful acts of violence on these dedicated individuals should face serious criminal punishment. That is why the NSW Government is committed to strengthening criminal law protections for frontline workers as distinct, grave offences through this bill.
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\u201cThe\u00a0Crimes Legislation Amendment (Assaults on Frontline Emergency and Health Workers) Bill 2022<\/a>\u00a0contains a suite of important reforms for the better protection of health and emergency services workers who commit their working lives to keeping our community safe.
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\u201cThe new offences recognise that acts of violence against these workers merit express and distinct recognition, and higher penalties than currently available under the general assault provisions in the\u00a0Crimes Act 1900<\/em>. The new offences align with existing penalties for assaulting NSW police officers and other law enforcement officers.
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\u201cThis bill underscores the NSW Government\u2019s strong commitment to strengthening criminal law protections for frontline health and emergency workers.
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\u201cThis bill is part of the\u00a0NSW Government\u2019s response<\/a>\u00a0to the NSW Sentencing Council\u2019s report\u00a0Assaults on Emergency Services Workers<\/em><\/a>.\u201d
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The NSW Government is supporting, in full or in principle, all of the recommendations in that report.\u00a0
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In addition, the NSW Government\u2019s amendments go further by ensuring that firefighters from the NSW Rural Fire Service, Fire and Rescue NSW and NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, pharmacy staff, community health workers, NSW State Emergency Service frontline workers and other specified emergency workers will also be covered by the new offences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legislation with new offences with tough penalties for offenders who assault frontline health and emergency services workers has been introduced to Parliament by the NSW Government.\u00a0Attorney General Mark Speakman said every person should be able to feel safe in their workplace, including health and emergency services workers who perform an essential public service for our … Continue reading “New bill to better protect our frontline emergency workers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17730,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17729\/revisions\/17730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}