Member for Orange Phil Donato, a former police prosecutor, joined with Police Association of NSW president Tony King and Police Association of NSW Orange Branch chairman Adam Piffarelli in calling for annual pay increases to be reinstated after the NSW government announced they would be frozen in 2020.

Mr Donato slammed the "hypocrisy" of front-line wage freezes while senior bureaucrats received pay rises.

"My position was front line services should be getting their pay increases," he said.

"It's not a matter of wanting more money, it's about getting what they deserve and what they're entitled to under legislation. We just want a fair deal for the police."

Mr Piffarelli said police had been forced to shoulder a much higher workload over the past nine months, with officers based in the Central West forced to spend time assisting hotel quarantine,

"Locally the sorts of issue affecting us over the last nine months in the threat of bushfire and the COVID-19 pandemic has put a strain on these officers trying to combat crime in this area," he said.

"These officers are taken away from local communities where they need to be tasked with keep crime down.

"What they're putting themselves through and their families at risk by going door-to-door when everyone else is told to isolate."

He said nearly "every person" in the Orange station had spent stints away from home since the beginning of bushfire season last year, which had an impact on crime rates in the city.

"One thing here is domestic violence related issues and that's something we're trying hard to stamp out in Orange," Mr Piffarelli said.

"These officers who are sent to the borders, they're the ones investigating these crimes and while they're away these crimes aren't being investigated as maybe they would have done in the past.

"We're worth more than a zero per cent increase."

PANSW president Tony King said all police wanted was the chance to sit at the table with the NSW government.

"In some areas, 30 per cent increase in police workload due to covid restrictions, Knocking on doors, going down to borders, going down to quarantine," he said.

"What we're after is a fair deal. The government [mandated] increase in 2.5 per cent and even in booms times that's all we've had. In a recession, we're not saying 2.5 per cent, we're saying let's sit down and start discussing this matter."

He said police had been instrumental in preventing rapid spread of COVID-19 across NSW.

"We're seeing police go down to the border to protect our communities, you're seeing hotel quarantine in Sydney, all we're asking for is a fair deal," he said.

"At the moment, the coalition government isn't talking to us, isn't bargaining with us. We're being forced to go to the industrial court.

"You see what's happened in Victoria, we've prevented that through hotel quarantine and police being involved. We're not asking for too much."