The ACT Greens and the police union have agreed on some election commitments to community safety while the cop and Independents' candidate, who slammed "moron" drivers during Summernats, has committed to all if elected.
The Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA), which also represents ACT Policing staff, had six requests for candidates in this election.
These included increasing sworn police numbers, "desperate" upgrades to workplaces and permanently funding community and road safety teams.
While Labor and Liberal parties in Canberra promised to increase police numbers, new police headquarters and an additional precinct in Molonglo, the AFPA said the Greens had also responded to their asks with some support.
"The ACT Greens have provided a balanced response to our requests, and we have some alignments," union president Alex Caruana said.
The party's stance on new facilities for local police revealed they were "open to the development and relocation of policing facilities to support the effective operation of policing services".
While the ACT Greens helped secure more than $7 million to fund the Police, Ambulance and Clinician Early Response team (PACER responds to people having mental health crises) for the next four years, Mr Caruana said the funding needed to be permanent.
An ACT Greens spokesperson said PACER was "something we want to continue for Canberra" but the permanent commitment would depend on community feedback and a KPMG review of the service.
"Making the funding permanent would enable better workforce planning for the PACER teams," she said.
Responding to the union's request, the ACT Greens also said a PACER-like service which also responded to domestic violence incidents could be helpful in some situations.
"We support a study to better understand how this would work," the spokeswoman said.
"We also recognise the importance of providing adequate resourcing to all our frontline crisis services and increasing housing capacity, and we expect that our commitments to this funding would also reduce the workload on police."
However, the Greens and AFPA differed on reforms related to search powers and knife laws.
The party said there was little evidence to suggest "random knife wanding powers" worked to reduce violence or offending.
"Giving credit to the ACT Greens, they did state that they'd possibly be open to further discussions on this topic, so the door isn't 100 per cent shut," Mr Caruana said.
ACT 'will lose more than 126 officers'
On leave from being ACT's Head of Road Policing to contest in the elections, Mark Richardson from Independents for Canberra is still a serving police officer.
Knowing the ins and outs of policing requirements, the lead candidate for Ginninderra said he would commit to all the requests made by AFPA.
He said recruitment and retention of police for the ACT needed significant attention because the force "will lose more than 126 officers before the five-year mark."
He also supported permanent funding for Operation TORIC saying Canberra had "the second-highest statistics in the country" for motor vehicle theft.
All Independents for Canberra (IFC) candidates supported expansion of the PACER model, Mr Richardson said.
"Of course, this would require significant investment from the ACT government. This could not be resourced within current staffing levels within ACT police. Similarly, I expect services such as [Domestic Violence Crisis Service] would also require additional resources to meet demand," he said.
He revealed outdated police infrastructure was one of the reasons for the new ACT Road Policing Centre opening in Hume and said he would support all workplace-related requests.
Additionally, the sergeant-on-leave also said all IFC candidates supported the AFPA's request for a bail and sentencing review which aligned with their commitment to an independent inquiry into the criminal justice system.
Union president Mr Caruana said many of their election requests were already being met or supported. He said all major parties, including candidates from the Belco party, had been open and engaging with the AFPA.
"I thank them for that," he said.
"We don't wear red, blue, green or the independent palette of colours and we'll work with anyone that wants to support police and the hardworking members of ACT Policing or wishes to learn more about the policing and law enforcement environment.
"The AFPA wishes all candidates the best of luck."
