"Local" police forces being considered

See, whereas I would say it. 🙂

Besides, enough of the pissing contest. Have a drink it’s Friday.

By implication a threat of violence in response to a mild invective???

Nyssa

The difference with me being 6’2″ and 109kg, with 17 years in law enforcement. He/she/it wouldn’t have the ticker to say it to my face.

One statement infers me living under a rock, but I am sure Benno is gutless

The problem, vg, is that there is very little detail as yet. I’ve been watching WIN News and checking the CT to see if any of the questions have been answered, but they haven’t.

We’ve seen this sort of initiative before – there is some vague announcement, things seem to last for a while but other priorities take over and they fall away. The AFP used to have a significant role with NW, and I can remember how unthinking they were when support was withdrawn. No notice, no reasons, no consultation, no thought about the repercussions in the community. We wrote letters, asked questions, all to no avail.

Unless this is a properly structured, funded and resourced initiative, it will take quite some time to get the community back on board.

My NW group for example, regards the two Hospitals as being crime “hotspots”, so it will be interesting to see if these designated teams will take notice of our concerns.

I’ll reserve judgement until I see some details – don’t jump on people like capt benno, as the lack of information creates an environment where interpretation and speculation will occur. There’s no need to be defensive when the powers that be provide very little concrete information.

let he who is without sin, cast the first stone

As does the “you wouldn’t have the ticker to say it to my face” comment.

Enough of the pissing contest. No one will win.

“you can crawl back under your rock now mate.”

Nothing looks more pathetic than a person uneducated on a subject getting caught out and then ending it with invective.

I’d put my house on the fact you wouldn’t have the ticker to say it to my face, everyone’s a superhero on the net

perhaps i could have chosen my words a bit better vg. cheers for that. btw – ‘zone’ was used for want of a better word. you can crawl back under your rock now mate.

Bonfire’s right – this doesn’t change the fact we don’t have enough police numbers (we’re a fair bit below the national average from memory).

no matter how thin you spread your vegemite, sometimes you just dont have enough to cover a single piece of toast.

normally, you buy more vegemite, not keep spreading it thinner and thinner.

You have no idea what you are talking about. The proposal is that, within each patrol, designated teams will take ‘ownership’ of a certain number of suburbs. Nothing to do with re-zoning the ACT.

Kerces,

I read this slightly differently. The proposal is that Police resources are ‘zoned’, not by suburbs, but by a ‘zone’. Ten bucks that your belcos, wodens and tuggeranongs get divided into Nth, Sth, East and West. So not on suburb lines. but a collection of them…