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June 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda AAP
The police union is worried a NSW government promise to boost the number of officers on the beat will include transit officers.
NSW Treasurer Mike Baird’s office has indicated the upcoming budget will fund the recruitment of 220 new officers, on top of 150 who have joined this financial year.
The promise to increase police force numbers to 16,300, including a total of 400 new police over four years, was revealed in Fairfax media on Sunday.
But NSW Police Association vice-president Pat Gooley has accused the state government of recycling an old announcement from several months ago.
“Look, the Police Association welcomes the addition of any police into the ranks,” he told ABC Radio on Sunday.
“What we hope is that it’s not a re-announcement of the police transport command that was made months ago and it truly is additional police into the ranks.”
Mr Baird has also unveiled to News Ltd a budget plan to save $1.24 billion by dumping a series of small-scale programs, including a $6 million Victoria-Queensland bike path, a $12 million program to landscape housing commission properties, an annual $3.8 million Breakfast On The Bridge event, $5.3 million in National Parks programs and $656,000 from the HSC advice line.
The state government is likely to face more resistance from unions over its plan to slash up to 10,000 public sector jobs, as part of a bid to return the budget to surplus in 2013/14.
The budget, to be delivered on Tuesday, is expected to show a deficit of $826 million for the next financial year.
The Rail Tram and Bus Union’s state secretary Alex Claassens called on the government to exempt transport workers from job cuts.
“Given its commitment to fix transport and make customer service a key priority transport staff must be added to the list of workers exempt from these cuts,” he said in a statement.
“Cutting the jobs of people who deliver transport services is not the answer to NSW public transport issues.”
He said the recent announcement of 750 RailCorp job cuts and the flagged privatisation of Sydney’s buses called into question the government’s commitment to investing in transport infrastructure.
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