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Message: [QUOTE="Jason Simmons, post: 3103597, member: 8275"] The QPS budget alone is beyond $2b a year. The ‘revenue’ raised is somewhere around $300m a year. Even if we didn’t raise a dollar in a single year for the Government, the ‘blow’ to their budget bottom lines isn’t much in the scheme of things. The whole ‘filling Government coffers’ thing from police, is massively overblown when you actually look at how much the Government spends every year. We are a veritable drop in the sea of Government money. My thoughts about the RPU are simply that they more than any other part of the service, interfere with the QPS relationship with the community. Partly because of their job and partly because of the attitudes of many of their members. The QPS could do an awful lot with the money and resources it puts into road policing, TMR could do the role easily with an increase in staff and a re-jig of their powers and that negative aspect could be fobbed off elsewhere. The only differences would be that the community would stop hating us for being ‘revenue raisers’ which would improve our relationship, and that a bunch of over-weight dudes would stop stuffing themselves into a QPS uniform that includes jodhpurs... [/QUOTE]

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