PANSW president Tony King and the region's branch representative, Armidale-based officer Chris Jordan, are on a tour of the bush.

They landed in Gunnedah on Thursday afternoon before heading to Tamworth, to speak with local officers about the Worth More Than Zero campaign.

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The association is calling for annual pay increases to be reinstated after the state government announced they would be frozen this year.

The PANSW is currently in the middle of dealings with the Industrial Relations Court (IRC) to argue their case. This hearing is set to continue next week, and will wrap up on October 8.

Mr King said the association was simply asking for a "fair go" for the police.

"We're ... asking for the government to come and sit down at the table to chat about the paying conditions of the police that are actually doing the work around the state," Mr King said.

"The stubborn imposition of a pay freeze has been an insult to our members and is the reason we are running a Worth More Than Zero campaign. The continuous flood of praise for the work that's being done by NSW Police are just empty words if they aren't being backed up with action."

He told ACM that since the pandemic had hit, the police force had seen a 30 per cent increase in work, with about 450-500 officers deployed to the border every five days.

"You see it everyday with the work that police are doing - if you look at this year, we've had massive fires, floods and then the pandemic, and the police have been on the frontline of all of that, plus doing their own normal day-to-day work," Mr King said.

"Police from the Western Region have been sent to the border, from Armidale right through here ... to keep the state safe, and then you've got the compliance checks on COVID.

"When you look at the results the police have achieved here right around the state, and you look to the state to the south of us, it shows you what a professional world-class police force we have in NSW."