More Police on local streets.

or bicycles, maelinar. which are greener?

horses emit ghg’s (methane) and the production & transport of their feed, and energy required in production of shoes, gear etc, prob’ly outweighs that of a cycle.

but the mounties always get their man, so would be great so long as the gender balance of criminals remains tilted so significantly towards blokes!

Horses are the greenest form of motorbike. Get on the climate change bandwagon and bring back the mounted constabulary.

The new Police bikes were replacing the old ones. So no, there are not more Police motorbikes on the street. They are out and about around 75% of the time but are often caught up in ceremonial tasks like escorting foreign dignitaries motorcades around town. There would only be about 6 bikes out covering all of Canberra at any point in time so unlikely you will see them on a regular basis.

There has been about 60 new recruits added to the force in 2008 and thats ontop of around 120 that graduated in 2007 so the numbers are getting healthier that I can assure you.

New roster puts more Police on the streets in the busier periods which is a good thing and should have a more visible presence to the public. Having enough working Police vehicles to go around can be a problem though.

If they put a comunity cop in Lanyon (Charnwood of Tuggeranong) there’d either be even more reported crime or more police manhours to reduce crime.

Either way, ACT Govt doesn’t want to hear it.

Do those extra motorcycle police get tied up escorting the PM’s motorcade around, or do special duty police do that?

Want to drop the crime rate in Canberra significantly ?

C.o.m.m.u.n.i.t.y C.o.p l.o.c.a.t.e.d i.n. K.i.p.p.a.x.

They could probably serve well to reopen on a more permanent basis that one they used to run in Garema Place as well – the one near where Sammy’s used to be.

And presumably, wherever the bogan congregation is most intense southside.

It’s nothing about keeping the bad people at bay, it’s all about meeting the publics expectations of response times. Now if the Courts would follow suit and meet public expetations it would be all good.

Apparently 18 new graduates were inducted last week.

I’ve seen a noticeable increase in the police presence around Tuggeranong.

This new top cop seems to have twigged to the fact that the community was rather peeved about the way the cops were going about their business and implemented some positive changes. Nowadays people are talking about seeing cops out and about and they actually say “g’day” as well. Let’s hope they keep it going for the good of the community.