❓ The Minister for Police and Emergency Services outlines the government's strategy to combat crime on Perth buses, including Operation BUSted and a new transit violence bus strategy involving increased surveillance and targeted measures.
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Will the minister advise the house of the government’s latest strategy to target crime on Perth buses? Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question and her interest in this issue. Today at the Morley bus station I announced a massive crime crackdown on our buses. Our government and the community are sick and tired of disgraceful behaviour by violent thugs who continue to put at risk the safety of other passengers and bus drivers. Even today’s event at the Morley bus station was marred by an incident on a bus where a back window was smashed with a fire hammer. In fact, police were still questioning a small group of teenagers when I left the bus station. We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question and her interest in this issue. Today at the Morley bus station I announced a massive crime crackdown on our buses. Our government and the community are sick and tired of disgraceful behaviour by violent thugs who continue to put at risk the safety of other passengers and bus drivers. Even today’s event at the Morley bus station was marred by an incident on a bus where a back window was smashed with a fire hammer. In fact, police were still questioning a small group of teenagers when I left the bus station. We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question and her interest in this issue. Today at the Morley bus station I announced a massive crime crackdown on our buses. Our government and the community are sick and tired of disgraceful behaviour by violent thugs who continue to put at risk the safety of other passengers and bus drivers. Even today’s event at the Morley bus station was marred by an incident on a bus where a back window was smashed with a fire hammer. In fact, police were still questioning a small group of teenagers when I left the bus station. We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question and her interest in this issue. Today at the Morley bus station I announced a massive crime crackdown on our buses. Our government and the community are sick and tired of disgraceful behaviour by violent thugs who continue to put at risk the safety of other passengers and bus drivers. Even today’s event at the Morley bus station was marred by an incident on a bus where a back window was smashed with a fire hammer. In fact, police were still questioning a small group of teenagers when I left the bus station. We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
I thank the member for Swan Hills for the question and her interest in this issue. Today at the Morley bus station I announced a massive crime crackdown on our buses. Our government and the community are sick and tired of disgraceful behaviour by violent thugs who continue to put at risk the safety of other passengers and bus drivers. Even today’s event at the Morley bus station was marred by an incident on a bus where a back window was smashed with a fire hammer. In fact, police were still questioning a small group of teenagers when I left the bus station. We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
We commenced Operation BUSted early in August and since then police have dealt with about 88 people for incidents related to violence, vandalism and alcohol-related offences. That resulted from Operation BUSted. It has been an extremely successful campaign and has operated throughout the metropolitan area to target those people who threaten community safety on our public transport system with their selfish and criminal behaviour. Already there has been a marked reduction in the number of incidents, particularly in some former hot spots in the southern corridor and Carine area. Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
Today I announced a new campaign that will build on the success of Operation BUSted. It will be the most comprehensive and targeted attack on bus louts and vandals that has ever taken place in Perth. The campaign will be based around a transit violence bus strategy. It is a strategy that has been developed by the Office of Crime Prevention, the police, the Public Transport Authority, the bus companies and the Transport Workers’ Union. It includes provisions for more covert operations by police on buses and at bus stations; increased electronic surveillance; a new database to target repeat offenders; enforcing the removal of troublemakers from buses; and parents and schools being more involved in dealing with offenders. Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
Vandalism on buses costs the community $500 000 per year, and that is apart from the enormous human cost of those incidents. The message is simple: this behaviour has to stop. This comprehensive package will go a long way to dealing with and apprehending those people who misbehave on our buses and commit criminal acts.
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