Fences up, vandalism down

I guess Ms Burch had saved up a ‘positive’ announcement for a rainy day in an attempt to counter the debacle that is the ‘oops we really should have re-opened Flynn Primary instead of approving two private schools nearby’.
She really isn’t coping with the portfolio responsibility.

Didn’t the fences go up in like 2006?

So the past 3 years has been somewhat of a shocker.

This just means that vandals are vandalising elsewhere, else why close Kambah pool at night?

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

The fences are too low. They keep out the honest peeps and the the opportunist assholes. I’m not prepared to mention exactly how easy is is to climb one of those fences, besides to say go look at one of the gates. Ridic.seriously

There is also talk about security patrols not bothering to check on schools with fences, even when alarms have gone off. I think act edu needs to check up on guards and alarm activations in fenced off schools.

4 hours to get a guard to dectivate a alarm caused by a break in is pretty unacceptable…

Yeah but those ‘opportunist assholes’ who might wander through school grounds and break windows here and there can do a lot of damage in terms of $ as per the OP.

The fences are too low. They keep out the honest peeps and the the opportunist assholes. I’m not prepared to mention exactly how easy is is to climb one of those fences, besides to say go look at one of the gates. Ridic.seriously

There is also talk about security patrols not bothering to check on schools with fences, even when alarms have gone off. I think act edu needs to check up on guards and alarm activations in fenced off schools.

4 hours to get a guard to dectivate a alarm caused by a break in is pretty unacceptable…

So the vandals effectively paid for the tittywhale?

In NSW, higher fences were installed during the late 70s and early 80s to combat this problem, and for the most part worked quite well.

Either the ACT increase on vandalism has been very gradual or taxpayers have been shelling out a lot of money for repairs that could largely be prevented with better security.

With the low costs of surveillance cameras, perhaps these could also be added to supplement the fencing and reduce security costs further, with the added benefit of being able to used against bullying during school hours