Courts as fortresses

Ahh and then the secure zones will offer transferable vetting.

You’ll either be “secured” and able to move freely or not.

Lovely.

I dont get it……..The courts are now much safer than our airports. A complete waste of money, unless of course the magistrates intend on putting crooks in jail, in which case it would make sense.

I wonder when we are going to get these security measures for shopping centres, supermarkets.

the court’s new sercutiy system is a joke and a half i went through the metal detector several times today beeped everytime but they told me it’s ok it’s just your SHOES as i was wearing high heals sorry but a joke i could have had any thing consealed on me and they didn’t bother to check again a joke

The Courts here have been easier to get into than a public toilet, ironic given how many people appear in the Magistrates Court for public urination! Every time I’ve been to them, I’ve not seen any armed security in or around the buildings. It’s would only be a matter of time before some crim comes back to get back at a judge or a witness is attacked in the foyer. Seems quite sensible to me.

thanks for the heads up i have to attend court tomorrow supporting a friend and i always get in sh*t for have a pocket swiss army thing in my bag!!!!

No Thumper sorry I wasn’t. Tuesday night I don’t know where I was and Thursday night I was in SYdney. But hope to see you soon!!

I have a counsellor through VOCAL so maybe I am luckier than most. I also made sure I got there much earlier than these people so that I didn’t have to see them.

Thumper, you were at The Front on Thursday. Tuesday you were at Filthy’s. Getting old and forgetful matey?

How things change. I remember when they first built those new courts, and added some lovely sculptural garden art: fist-sized tumbled stones in the garden-bed things.

Eventually they realised the error of this and, I can’t remember, they either glued them down or put mesh over them.

Hey scooter…I’m glad things worked out for you that way, but it’s not always the case. I was supporting a woman applying for a personal protection order (AVO) against a male who had threatened to kill her (and quite a history of acting out violently). We were made to sit and wait in an enclosed area not bigger than my loungeroom with him and his family staring us down, talking and staring – frightening intimidation tactics. We suffered this for close to an hour before I’d had enough and made a complaint to a court officer about it. We were then allowed to sit elsewhere away from them, but received no other assistance or…god forbid, compassion or understanding.

I agree that the courts had an amazing lack of security.