❓ Mrs Roberts raises concerns about abuse faced by school crossing attendants. The Minister details responses including speed camera deployment, increased police presence, and replacement wardens, emphasizing commitment to warden safety.
AnsweredQoN 772Legislative Assembly
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SCHOOL CROSSINGS — DRIVER BEHAVIOUR
772. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS to the Minister for
Road Safety:
I refer to reports that school
crosswalk attendants have refused to work at certain locations due to threats,
abuse and potentially violent behaviour.
(1) What support has the minister been supplying to
those and the many other attendants suffering similar abuse?
(2) How is she ensuring a safe work
environment for crosswalk attendants, who are her employees?
772. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS to the Minister for
Road Safety:
I refer to reports that school
crosswalk attendants have refused to work at certain locations due to threats,
abuse and potentially violent behaviour.
(1) What support has the minister been supplying to
those and the many other attendants suffering similar abuse?
(2) How is she ensuring a safe work
environment for crosswalk attendants, who are her employees?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Midland for
this question.
(1)–(2) I
was obviously expecting to get a question on this issue given it has been in
the media recently. The article in the media referred to the Secret Harbour
Primary School children's crossing. The member for Warnbro stated that
he had contacted my office several times on this issue. We did get a letter on
12 February this year, which I responded to in March. There have been some
issues with the behaviour of people around that particular crossing and each
time that has happened, the wardens have complained to either the principal or
the relevant unit within police, the traffic warden state management unit. In
response to that, we have deployed speed cameras to that location. Since
February, we have had nine speed camera deployments to that zone and 124
infringements have been issued as a result. Traffic enforcement group 1 has
been deployed to that area. The local policing teams target that crossing to
try to prevent this behaviour and deter motorists from behaving in that
fashion. Notwithstanding that, shortly after a police car left the vicinity the
last time it was posted there, another motorist drove through the crossing at
speed. It is hard to fathom the behaviour of some motorists out there, but in
response to these issues with the terrible behaviour of people in that local
community towards the traffic wardens, police have provided additional support
and they have responded.
The next two complaints that were
received by the police traffic warden unit were received on 16 and 20 September
and, in response to that, additional police resources and cars were deployed to
that area to try to deter motorists and manage motorists' behaviour
around that crossing. That particular area—I believe it is Warnbro Sound
Avenue—is a 70-kilometre-an-hour zone and reverts to a 40-kilometre-an-hour
zone during school crossing times. At present, we are expecting the traffic
wardens to be relocated to that site effective Thursday, 13 October, so we have
found replacement wardens. Police will continue to monitor and manage it, and
we recommend that any traffic warden who has such a complaint contact the
traffic warden unit. We take the issue of the occupational health and safety of
our traffic wardens very seriously indeed, and we will provide local policing
support wherever possible to ensure the safety of our wardens and our children.
this question.
(1)–(2) I
was obviously expecting to get a question on this issue given it has been in
the media recently. The article in the media referred to the Secret Harbour
Primary School children's crossing. The member for Warnbro stated that
he had contacted my office several times on this issue. We did get a letter on
12 February this year, which I responded to in March. There have been some
issues with the behaviour of people around that particular crossing and each
time that has happened, the wardens have complained to either the principal or
the relevant unit within police, the traffic warden state management unit. In
response to that, we have deployed speed cameras to that location. Since
February, we have had nine speed camera deployments to that zone and 124
infringements have been issued as a result. Traffic enforcement group 1 has
been deployed to that area. The local policing teams target that crossing to
try to prevent this behaviour and deter motorists from behaving in that
fashion. Notwithstanding that, shortly after a police car left the vicinity the
last time it was posted there, another motorist drove through the crossing at
speed. It is hard to fathom the behaviour of some motorists out there, but in
response to these issues with the terrible behaviour of people in that local
community towards the traffic wardens, police have provided additional support
and they have responded.
The next two complaints that were
received by the police traffic warden unit were received on 16 and 20 September
and, in response to that, additional police resources and cars were deployed to
that area to try to deter motorists and manage motorists' behaviour
around that crossing. That particular area—I believe it is Warnbro Sound
Avenue—is a 70-kilometre-an-hour zone and reverts to a 40-kilometre-an-hour
zone during school crossing times. At present, we are expecting the traffic
wardens to be relocated to that site effective Thursday, 13 October, so we have
found replacement wardens. Police will continue to monitor and manage it, and
we recommend that any traffic warden who has such a complaint contact the
traffic warden unit. We take the issue of the occupational health and safety of
our traffic wardens very seriously indeed, and we will provide local policing
support wherever possible to ensure the safety of our wardens and our children.
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