Establish and implement cross-agency stretch targets, measures to achieve these targets and publicly report progress against these...
Infrastructure WA
Improve infrastructure planning with a focus on the interdependencies of police, courts and correctional facilities
Invest in fit for purpose and contemporary infrastructure
Justice and public safety
Over the 2 decades to 2020–21, offences against the person have more than doubled. The number of defendants finalised in criminal courts rose from 68,553 in 2004–05 to 78,089 in 2019–20.
WA’s prison population grew from 3,482 in 2004–05 to 6,770 in 2019–20 and in 2020–21, the state had 668 large bushfires, 3,157 small bushfires and 4,918 other fires.
