NSW Police officers have voted overwhelmingly to accept the Minns Labor Government\u2019s historic four-year pay agreement to recruit and retain police officers with highly competitive salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the first time in memory, police will be paid to stay, rather than incentivised to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The vote was slated to run for two weeks but The Police Association of NSW (PANSW) this morning called the result with a majority of members having voted yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reform also includes a one-off payment and improvements to allowances and pay-scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Voting on the offer opened on Monday November 18. As of yesterday, 70 per cent of PANSW members had voted on the pay offer \u2013 the largest turnout on record for such a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u2018yes vote\u2019 in favour of accepting the offer was 96 per cent\u2013 an overwhelming endorsement of the Government\u2019s pay offer by NSW police officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reform was achieved under the Labor Government\u2019s mutual gains bargaining framework, which replaced the former Liberal-National Government\u2019s widely resented wages cap that drove police numbers and incomes backwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The payrise is funded by reforming the Police Blue Ribbon Insurance (PBRI) scheme and bringing it into Government ownership to return money to front-line police and not into the profits of private insurance companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new Enhanced Police Officer Support Scheme better supports injured officers, wraps services around them and is intensively focussed on helping them get back to work wherever possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police Association members voted to accept:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the new agreement, the starting salary of a Probationary Constable \u2013 including loading – will increase from $81,517 to $84,777 and further increase to $97,206 by 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The salary of a Senior Constable Level 1 \u2013 including loading – will increase from 101,516 to 105,577 and further increase to $121,054 in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government\u2019s work to support NSW Police officers and address the chronic shortage of police officers presided over by the former Liberal National Government has also included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thanks to Labor\u2019s recruitment plan we are on track to see more than 1,000 recruits attest in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government was elected with a mandate to rebuild public services and reinvest in our front-line workforce and ensure we provide support when people in NSW need it most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s part of our plan to build a better NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for Industrial Relations Sophie Cotsis said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis four-year pay agreement with The Police Association of NSW recognises and rewards the efforts of our officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe were elected on a mandate to fix the recruitment and retention crisis in essential services and that is what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism Yasmin Catley said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am proud and delighted to have delivered this historic breakthrough for our police. It\u2019s the result of a lot of hard work over almost a year and tough negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI want to pay tribute to the leadership of the Police Association of NSW. They are hard bargainers and go all out to achieve results for their members, NSW cops. Working together, we\u2019ve achieved a monumental result for our cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrom day one in this job I\u2019ve said I\u2019m only here to back the police. Officers risk their lives every day to keep us safe and it\u2019s critical we recognise and thank them with a pay rise they deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is generational change that will pay police properly for the first time in more than a decade. It will attract a lot of recruits and, crucially, encourage a lot of experienced officers to stay on in a police force that values them, their service and their unique knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Former Liberal Government had no plan for recruitment, no plan for retention and they sent police wages backwards. That ends today under the Minns Labor Government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NSW Police officers have voted overwhelmingly to accept the Minns Labor Government\u2019s historic four-year pay agreement to recruit and retain police officers with highly competitive salaries. For the first time in memory, police will be paid to stay, rather than incentivised to leave. The vote was slated to run for two weeks but The Police … Continue reading “Historic award agreement accepted by NSW Police officers”<\/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-30255","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\/30255","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=30255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30256,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30255\/revisions\/30256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}