Strategic priorities for 2008-09
Highlights of the Service’s achievements against 2008-09 key strategic priorities are discussed throughout this report and summarised in Appendix 2.
Challenges and opportunities
The priorities provide a focus for managing the challenges and risks impacting on our workforce and service delivery, which include the:
- changing demography of Queensland, such as the growth and decline of mining communities and the ageing population
- positive effect of the economic crisis on workforce supply, as well as the negative effect on resource availability and crime rates
- ongoing risk of natural disasters and human and animal contagions
- need for flexible and innovative service delivery using a variety of channels and models
- opportunities presented by technology to facilitate information sharing, evidence and intelligence gathering
- growth in technology facilitated crime like internet paedophilia, identity theft and e-fraud
- availability and use of amphetamine type stimulants
- criminal activities of youth gangs and outlaw motor cycle gangs
- over-representation of vulnerable people in the criminal justice system, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with mental illness and homeless people.
Strategic priorities for 2009-10
In light of these challenges and opportunities, the QPS has developed strategic priorities that highlight areas where new emphasis, funding, or attention to outcomes will be focussed in the 2009-10 financial year. |
Key strategic priorities for the Service in 2009-10 include:
Police service delivery
- Road safety
- Major and organised crime
- Domestic and family violence
- The interaction between police and children and youth
- The interaction between police and vulnerable people, particularly Indigenous people, homeless people, and those with a mental illness or intellectual disability
- Alcohol and drug misuse and the impact on public safety
- Social order issues, including public space enjoyment
- Disaster management—all phases, from planning to recovery
Service delivery support
- Professional and ethical conduct
- Corporate governance, particularly in relation to assets and major projects, including impacts of environmentally friendly policy and practices
- Strategic and operational planning
- Access to and sharing of information and intelligence through information and communications technology
- Maximising the benefits of QPRIME
- Client-focused services and efficient business practices
- Workplace health and safety
- Strategic workforce planning and modelling
- Streamlined selection practices
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recruitment, including through the Justice Entry Program
- Infrastructure, particularly in Indigenous communities
- Operational equipment
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