Police: Neighbourhood Watch
06-May-2010
The Bracks and now Brumby Labor government's approach to policing has been to move away from community policing through such misguided policies as the abandonment of the hugely successful Police in Schools program and more recently withholding critical data from Neighbourhood Watch committees across the state. There is no doubt that the skyrocketing crime rates across the state are testimony to the folly of these types of strategies.
Our community needs our police carrying out the role they signed on for and to be on the front line protecting and working with their communities to produce safer outcomes.