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If the media reports are accurate, Herald Sun 3rd of October 2024, VicPol must be hugely embarrassed or tone deaf.

The report quoted a Police spokesperson as saying,

“The end of the financial year is traditionally a time when police choose to retire but this year’s total of 261 who left the organisation in July and August is well up on the 220 of the same period last year.”

The statement itself has no problems, but what is incredible is that the issue of a drop in police numbers in the set time frame is ‘traditional’, so the Force knows it's going to happen, and given the other figures, it seems highly improbable that the Force has been able to manage this phenomenon.

Given that the staffing level peaks and troughs are a known factor the failure in this staffing area is best described by the idiom.

“Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”

-Often incorrectly attributed to Einstein...