As you said, there are mental aspects too, and that can be long and ongoing.

It can be, and that's one of the inherent dangers of policing as well, is there's quite a large psychological trauma.

We go to events that I guess most people in their lives wouldn't attend, whereas police officers are attending multiple incidents that are quite traumatic.

So the association wraps our arms around our members, provide them support in the immediate incident, and then as this process unfolds moving forward.

Is there a message from the union that you'd like to send to the government and basically the broader community about the sort of risks and increasing risks that police officers are going through?

You're spot on with the increasing risks, Eleanor Graham, is that we've seen assaults on police increase year on year, month on month.

And this type of offending really is quite brazen.

So our focus really is ensuring that there is legislative provisions that protect police, that our police are paid properly, they're supported.

Um, so i- it's not necessarily about that?

No, no, Stacey, that's correct.

It's not, it's not just about the district policing model.

Um, the district policing model has, however, um, been assessed in twenty twenty-five as no longer sustainable, um, in its current form, and that was resulting as a, a, results of a number of reasons in relation to structural, um, mismatch between demand, staffing capacity, and workload.

But what delegates spoke about today was that, um, operational outcomes have deteriorated under the current model.

Um, there's significantly reduced proactive policing capacity as it increased reactive demand and I guess rising workload complexity.

It's also important to note that, um, delegates, uh, some nearly four years ago now, uh, met and passed a vote of no confidence in the district policing model itself, yet they're still under oper-- they're still operating under the same model.

So what could the police commissioner or the deputy, um, have done, I guess, differently to ensure this no confidence motion wasn't voted up? What, what, what is it that you're calling for them To do better at