Court Intervention Programs
HON ALISON XAMON (East Metropolitan) [10.01 am]: I present a petition containing 39 signatures and couched in the following terms —
To the President and Members of the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Western Australia in Parliament assembled.
We the undersigned residents of Western Australia support Recommendations 22–25 of the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia Final Report ‘Court Intervention Programs: Project No. 96’ (June 2009).
Your petitioners therefore respectfully request the Legislative Council to urge the Attorney General to immediately adopt these recommendations, and expand the Intellectual Disability Diversion Program, establish a mental impairment court intervention program in Western Australia in all metropolitan courts, establish general court intervention programs to service mentally impaired offenders in regional areas, and establish general court intervention programs to service mentally impaired young offenders.
Your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.
[See paper 2750.]