By Nasik Swami Give enough incentives to attract and retain police officers to work in rural South Australia. That’s the call to the government from the Police Association of South Australia, the union representing police officers. President Mark Carroll told The News that it was a “perennial challenge” to attract enough police officers to work in rural South Australia and then retain them over the long term. “One of the ways for SAPOL to achieve this is to ensure there are appropriate incentives for members to transfer into country areas,” he said. Mr Carroll said the South-east, unfortunately, was no exception to the wider staffing predicament, which was ubiquitous throughout South Australia Police. “As an example, the Naracoorte and Bordertown areas have a current shortfall of four permanent staff members. “Overall, SAPOL has a deficit of at least 200 full-time equivalent sworn police officers across the entire force,” Mr Carroll claimed. […]