Keeping communities safe: Supporting families, securing our future

This Budget puts more police on the job, helps to disrupt organised crime, builds a faster and fairer justice system, and funds investment in frontline domestic and family violence services.

It acts on a simple principle: relief for today and reform for tomorrow - building a state working Australians can afford.

Frontline policing

This Budget backs the police who keep communities safe. It invests:

• $94.3 million for an Australian-first specialist armed response command, with 250
  police officers, 28 civilian staff, rapid-response vehicles and a 24/7 operations centre.
• $108.8 million in the newest technology and upgrades to NSW Police's digital
  infrastructure.
• $42.8 million over 10 years for the NSW Firearms Registry to tighten checks and
  licence processing.
• $26.9 million for 30 additional police multicultural liaison officers.

After attesting 349 new officers in May 2026, police recruitment continues, backed by $2.5 million for recruitment campaigns.

Disrupting organised crime

The NSW Crime Commission receives $17.4 million to disrupt organised crime and confiscate the proceeds of crime.

A faster, fairer justice system

This Budget invests in a justice system that works for victims. It delivers:

• $8.5 million to establish an independent Victims of Crime Commissioner.
• $6.0 million for the Office of the Children's Guardian to uphold children's right to be safe.
• $3.0 million to modernise court technology and $6.5 million to upgrade video link facilities in correctional centres across metropolitan and regional NSW.

Protecting women and children

This Budget makes a $184.1 million investment in six frontline domestic and family violence services, helping thousands more women and children escaping violence stay safe. This is a 50 per cent increase over four years to 2029-30.

Community workers also receive a 4.75 per cent pay increase under the Fair Work Commission determination.

Responsible decisions make these investments possible

This Budget can provide cost-of-living relief and continue investing in essential services because the Government has spent the past three years making responsible and difficult decisions to strengthen the state's finances.

That work has been done without privatisation and without bringing back an unfair wages cap, while keeping public assets in public hands and maintaining an independent umpire for wages and conditions.

As global uncertainty and higher fuel prices place additional pressure on families and businesses, this Budget provides support now while continuing the work of returning the state's finances to surplus in 2027-28.

It's about supporting families today, while securing NSW's future.