THE South Australian government is at odds with both police and the courts insisting on budget savings the two agencies say they will struggle to meet.
The government says total funds provided to both groups will rise in each of the next four years.
But it will also insist they meet designated savings targets, $150 million for police and $7.3 million for the courts.
Police Commissioner Gary Burns warned recently that budget savings would be difficult to meet without a review of officer numbers.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Chris Kourakis has issued a similar warning that savings targets can only be met by cutting the number of judges and magistrates.
Premier Jay Weatherill said the government understood that reaching the targets would not be easy but would insist on budget discipline.
"I'm not suggesting that these budget savings tasks are easy, in many cases they're very difficult, they're hard work and people would prefer not to have to deal with it," the premier told reporters on Friday.
"But we have an obligation to present a prudent set of finances.
"We have to trim our cloth to meet the budget that we have and that's the task that they've been set."
Mr Weatherill said while both Mr Burns and Justice Kourakis were free to make their opinions known, their comments would not get them "advanced in the queue".
He said there was no mechanism for providing top-up funding outside of the budget process.
In the case of the courts, Law Society of SA president John White said the government's savings targets would delay court proceedings and impact severely on the delivery of justice.
"Justice delayed really is justice denied," Mr White said.
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