Consultation
Background
The State Hazard Plan – Hostile Act provides an overview of the arrangements for the management of Hostile Acts within Western Australia and contains information about the strategic arrangements for prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from a hostile act. The Commissioner of Police is the Hazard Management Agency for Hostile Act Emergencies.
As this is a strategic level plan, it refers to a range of existing plans and documents relating to hostile acts but does not duplicate the information contained within these, instead provides directions to websites or other sources where further information can be obtained if required.
Comprehensive Review Process
Every five years, and in accordance with State Emergency Management Policy section 1.5.10 and State Emergency Management Preparedness Procedure 3.2 a comprehensive review of the State Hazard Plan – Hostile Act is required to be undertaken and provided for broad consultation with all emergency management stakeholders.
Initial Consultation
Initial feedback was requested from internal WA Police Force stakeholders and agencies with roles and responsibilities within the State Hazard Plan – Hostile Act. The feedback provided helped to inform the amendments made to the proposed consultation draft.
Broad Consultation
The amended State Hazard Plan – Hostile Act is now provided for broad emergency management stakeholder review and feedback. Broad consultation will be open for 12 weeks from 16 March 2026 to 5 June 2026. Please submit your feedback by 3pm Friday 5 June 2026 using the Complete the Survey tool.
We welcome other questions or comments you have in relation to this plan. Further comments can be provided via the Drop a quick comment tab.
Summary of Amendments
The following amendments are proposed within the draft State Hazard Plan - Hostile Act:
Prevention and Mitigation
- Contemporary police strategies have been incorporated to provide a greater understanding of mitigation activities for hostile acts.
Preparedness
- Incorporation of wording to identify the similarities between counter terrorism and hostile act preparedness activities and importance of multi-agency exercising.
Response
- Clarity
provided for agencies understanding on the terms Police Command and Police
Forward Command.
- Change of reference documents for disaster victim identification from the Interpol Protocols to ANZPAA Disaster Victim Identification Committee Guide.
- Inclusion of EmergencyWA as a public information/warning platform.
Recovery
- Provide comprehensive detail on recovery processes, including initiating recovery and the transition from response to recovery in accordance with the existing State EM Policy and the future direction of the State Recovery Framework.
Organisational roles and responsibilities
- Organisational roles and responsibilities for a hostile act emergency across prevention, preparedness, response and recovery have been summarised and included within Appendix C.
Statement of fact amendments
- Updates to
related legislation, regulation and other documents.
- Removal of duplication with other State Emergency Management documents.
- Other amendments to simplify language and improve readability.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Your feedback will be shared with WA Police Force and the State Emergency Management Policy Branch. All feedback will be considered, however it is not always possible or appropriate to address or incorporate all feedback and comments. Further consultation and marketing may be required to obtain support for the new content and amendments.
Please contact SEMC.PolicyLegislation@dfes.wa.gov.au if you would like more information on how your feedback is addressed.
The draft plan has been created to be shared with your stakeholders and advisory groups. Please ensure this document is not shared with the greater public or published on a public website as it has not been approved by the SEMC for further dissemination.
Submitting your feedback through this website, greatly assists with the consolidation and analysis of the consultation feedback.
Please contact the DFES State EM Policy Branch if you have any concerns using this website. We may be able to provide a word version of the survey to assist with the preparation of your responses before your submission.
In addition, the survey allows for additional documents to be uploaded to your submission where required.
