❓ Dr. Hames asks about police efforts to reduce crime in Mandurah and Peel following a forum with business owners. The Minister details successful police actions, including increased charges and reduced crime rates, and announces increased foot patrols.
AnsweredQoN 800Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
POLICE — CRIME RATES — MANDURAH AND
PEEL
800. Dr K.D. HAMES to the Minister for
Police:
The minister recently attended a forum with business owners from across
the Mandurah and Peel regions to discuss their law and order concerns. Can the
minister please update the house on how police are working with the community
across these regions to reduce crime?
PEEL
800. Dr K.D. HAMES to the Minister for
Police:
The minister recently attended a forum with business owners from across
the Mandurah and Peel regions to discuss their law and order concerns. Can the
minister please update the house on how police are working with the community
across these regions to reduce crime?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Dawesville
for the question and for his interest always in community safety matters in his
region.
Last Friday morning I was very
privileged to attend the Safer Mandurah and the Peel Local Business Breakfast
Forum, jointly hosted by the City of Mandurah, WA Police and the Peel Chamber
of Commerce and Industry. I attend these sorts of forums regularly. They
provide an opportunity for business owners and community members to raise
issues about community safety with police, and for police, local government,
business and members of the community to find ways that they can work
proactively together to ensure that there is a safer environment for people to
operate their businesses and for the community in general. The event was very
well attended, member for Dawesville. The member will appreciate that this
forum arose out of our regional cabinet meeting in Mandurah last April. A
number of business owners raised issues with me about safety in the Smart Street
Mall and the Mandurah shopping area. Out of that discussion, we undertook to do
some work with local policing teams to try to drive crime down through the
Mandurah area and to provide some solutions. The local policing teams started
to put together the things they do best, including some local action targeting
prolific priority offenders. The member for Dawesville will be very pleased to
know that between January and August this year, the Mandurah LPT charged 859 people
with 1 561 offences, which is more offences and more persons charged than
during the entire 2015 calendar year. The Mandurah LPT has been very, very
active under the care of its new officer in charge. From January to August this
year compared with the same time last year, we had a 17 per cent reduction in
the number of burglaries. There has been a 30 per cent reduction in car theft.
Mrs
M.H. Roberts interjected.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : I know the member does not like it when I talk about police
doing a great job, but I will continue to do so in this place. There has been a
68 per cent reduction in graffiti offences, down to seven reported offences in
the period from January to August this year. I was very pleased to stand
alongside police to report back to the Mandurah community and businesses on the
great policing effort that has been put in place and the effect that police
have had in driving crime down. I know the member for Mandurah will be pleased
to hear this: I am very pleased to announce that police have said that they
will now put foot patrols in place during the summer period through the Smart
Street Mall and along the Mandurah foreshore just to make sure they keep the
pressure on those prolific priority offenders so they do not continue to target
that foreshore area and so the area can be preserved for the amenity of
visitors and the enjoyment of locals, and to ensure that homes and businesses are
safer. I am very pleased that the forum was convened. I congratulate the Peel
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, WA Police, the City of Mandurah and all those
business owners in the Mandurah CBD who have worked so proactively with police
to get this tremendous outcome for the community.
for the question and for his interest always in community safety matters in his
region.
Last Friday morning I was very
privileged to attend the Safer Mandurah and the Peel Local Business Breakfast
Forum, jointly hosted by the City of Mandurah, WA Police and the Peel Chamber
of Commerce and Industry. I attend these sorts of forums regularly. They
provide an opportunity for business owners and community members to raise
issues about community safety with police, and for police, local government,
business and members of the community to find ways that they can work
proactively together to ensure that there is a safer environment for people to
operate their businesses and for the community in general. The event was very
well attended, member for Dawesville. The member will appreciate that this
forum arose out of our regional cabinet meeting in Mandurah last April. A
number of business owners raised issues with me about safety in the Smart Street
Mall and the Mandurah shopping area. Out of that discussion, we undertook to do
some work with local policing teams to try to drive crime down through the
Mandurah area and to provide some solutions. The local policing teams started
to put together the things they do best, including some local action targeting
prolific priority offenders. The member for Dawesville will be very pleased to
know that between January and August this year, the Mandurah LPT charged 859 people
with 1 561 offences, which is more offences and more persons charged than
during the entire 2015 calendar year. The Mandurah LPT has been very, very
active under the care of its new officer in charge. From January to August this
year compared with the same time last year, we had a 17 per cent reduction in
the number of burglaries. There has been a 30 per cent reduction in car theft.
Mrs
M.H. Roberts interjected.
Mrs
L.M. HARVEY : I know the member does not like it when I talk about police
doing a great job, but I will continue to do so in this place. There has been a
68 per cent reduction in graffiti offences, down to seven reported offences in
the period from January to August this year. I was very pleased to stand
alongside police to report back to the Mandurah community and businesses on the
great policing effort that has been put in place and the effect that police
have had in driving crime down. I know the member for Mandurah will be pleased
to hear this: I am very pleased to announce that police have said that they
will now put foot patrols in place during the summer period through the Smart
Street Mall and along the Mandurah foreshore just to make sure they keep the
pressure on those prolific priority offenders so they do not continue to target
that foreshore area and so the area can be preserved for the amenity of
visitors and the enjoyment of locals, and to ensure that homes and businesses are
safer. I am very pleased that the forum was convened. I congratulate the Peel
Chamber of Commerce and Industry, WA Police, the City of Mandurah and all those
business owners in the Mandurah CBD who have worked so proactively with police
to get this tremendous outcome for the community.
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