Tasmania is in need of an ambitious, yet workable long-term plan for the state's under pressure frontline services.
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Tasmania Police's Northern District is understaffed and feeling the heat of a rise in serious crime, the LGH is operating on the verge of breaking point and firefighters are asking for more help.
It remains unclear exactly where Tasmania Police's state government-funded capability review is at, which is strange considering they have already hired 40 of the new 125 officers the government promised by 2022 and the review is looking at the dispersion of officers.
There is talk the report will be released before the end of the year, but to not have a public strategy about where recruits will be stationed yet is counter-intuitive. Another issue, according to the Police Association of Tasmania, is that they don't share resources within Tasmania Police's three districts when a major crime is rife or a major incident has occurred.
Surely in the 21st century we could be better at allocating resources based on demand, especially considering the Northern district's overall offences in 2018-19 increased by almost 23 per cent.
On the health front, the government claims there are 1000 more THS staff and 130 more beds from when it first came into power. Yet staff are still being pushed to the breaking point on a daily basis in a time of unprecedented demand.
Earlier this month the LGH was scrutinised on national television for the systematic errors that led to the death of 76-year-old John Novaski.
Yet two years on, the hospital's intensive care director Dr Scott Parkes says a lack of inpatient beds has still not been addressed.
Firefighters are under pressure from being asked to do more with less. What is the contingency plan for a major event like we experienced this year with the Midland bushfires?
Police and fire fighting resources are drained carrying out community safety tasks, and rightly so, at the expense of proactive policing.
Officers still haven't caught up from the summer fires and it has been flagged as a major issue. Frontline services are there to respond to emergencies. But we shouldn't wait for a crisis before implementing real solutions.