COMMUNITY SAFETY

“It is essential that we have up-to-date facilities and sufficient resources for our police officers to enable them to respond to community concerns in a prompt and efficient manner. Palmyra Police Station has now been given responsibility for all the suburbs in the Electorate and more police have been assigned to improve police response times in line with the community’s expectations.”

Janet’s Record

Closure of local brothels

– Janet worked closely with members of the local community to successfully have brothels operating in the City of Melville closed. She believes the Prostitution Amendment Bill is possibly the worst piece of legislation that the Labor Government has forced on the community in terms of the suffering, harm and abuse it will bring to girls and women and the ongoing issues that their families will face.

Applecross Retirement Village

– Janet worked with police from Palmyra and Fremantle to set up successful strategies to deal with unruly youths who were terrorizing the elderly residents at the retirement village with their anti-social behaviour. Additional police vehicle patrols were organized and helped to stop the youths from using the retirement village as a thoroughfare.

Heathcote commitment from Police

– Janet worked with police to address community concerns about an increase in vandalism and anti-social behaviour at the Heathcote Heritage Precinct. Police gave Janet a commitment to invoke a zero tolerance on anti-social behaviour and drinking in public parks to successfully stop that trend from continuing.

Challenges

Resources for police

– Janet will continue to monitor the staffing and resources provided to local police to ensure that adequate levels are maintained and that more police patrols are available within the community.

Need for a new centrally located police station

– Janet is lobbying for a new state-of-the-art police station to be located close to Garden City Shopping Centre to overcome the cramped work conditions at older stations. This would improve police morale, response times and the services provided to the community.

Rescind Truth in Sentencing legislation

– Janet supports the push to amend the Truth in Sentencing legislation to better reflect the community’s stand against the automatic one third discount when sentencing people for criminal offences. She would also like to see the current lenient penalties for assaulting public officers strengthened.

Janet’s Plan

More Police on the street

– Ensure staffing levels at Palmyra Police Station are fully maintained until a new state-of the-art, centrally located police station can be built so that more police are available to patrol our streets.

Prostitution

– Encourage City of Melville to reject any applications it receives for sexual service businesses and to refer the applications to the State Administration Tribunal. The community has sent a clear message that it does not want brothels or sexual service businesses operating in residential areas. Ensure that council adheres to its amendment to its Town Planning Scheme that makes the operation of a sexual service business a defined land use, which is not permitted within the City.

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