PHOTO: Arguments mount for around the clock policing in regional communities.
First the Country Mayors Association called for it. Now it’s the Country Women’s Association of NSW who say rural areas desperately need 24 hour policing.
“Urgent and immediate action to establish 24-hour policing in all larger regional, rural and remote shires” was voted for the CWA following an illuminating panel discussion involving Peter Price, CEO of Crime Stoppers NSW, Adam DeMamiel from Boys to the Bush and Jamie Chaffey head of the Country Mayors Association.
Mr Chaffey told the conference that “We can’t arrest our way out of the problem, but it makes a hell of difference if you have police”.
The mayor of Gunnedah said there was a lack of “proactive policing in rural communities”…