With drugs, break-in's, assaults and even murder now occurring frequently or at least far in excess of what is considered to be "normal" in a few hotspots across Queensland, it's about time, and way past time, that the police are provided both a boost in powers and resources to tackle a crime wave at street level that shows no imminent sign of abating.
It's not just about giving the police more powers and having more police, it's about having more police out on the street, doing mobile patrols, not sitting behind a desk at the local police station when they don't need to be, doing lacky duties that a receptionist should or could be doing.
In the crime hotspots across Queensland, their needs to be urgent consideration given by the Palaszczuk government, and especially Police Minister Mark Ryan, to mandate frequent and routine police mobile patrols, where it's not already happening. Which is probably at least most of them.
Further to that - there needs to be a lot more "police beat houses" spring up across Queensland in the problem areas for street crime. Meaning, a house in the suburbs, just like any other house, only difference being a police officer or officers is stationed there, and is working there.
Can't get any more grassroots and accessible than that. It's what you call policing at the most community based level possible.
Having a lot more of that in areas of Queensland besieged by break-in's, drug crime and violent crime of various kinds is not going to stop all crime, but it's going to at least help a lot. Don't you reckon?
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