Thursday, 20 February 2025

Malvern electorate crime

Michael O’BRIEN (Malvern) (09:46):

Dear Michael

I have never felt compelled to write to an MP about a matter before, but the current crime situation in Malvern is at such a point that as a resident in your electorate, I feel compelled to write.

Over the last 12 months, the crime situation has reached a point where so many of us feel unsafe in our home and there appears to be a level of apathy to the situation where people try to break into homes.

So wrote Carla in an email to me yesterday, and not a day goes by when I do not receive emails from constituents of mine who are sick and tired of feeling scared in their homes because of the crime crisis. While they are being gaslit by the Labor government and the former Attorney-General has said there is no youth crime crisis, the facts show a very different story – burglaries in my electorate up 24.2 per cent in the last 12 months, aggravated burglaries up 24.1 per cent in the last 12 months and motor vehicle theft up 42 per cent in the last 12 months.

What has been the response of this Allan Labor government? Closing the Malvern police station 16 hours a day and weakening bail laws. My constituents are sick of it; I am sick of it. We are all sick of a government that will not keep the community safe, will not resource our local police, will not have proper bail laws and does not give Victorians the safety to live in their own homes without fear of being broken into.