Tuesday, 4 March 2025

Mornington electorate

Chris CREWTHER (Mornington) (14:53): (1018) My constituency question is for the Minister for Police. Crime is out of control in the Mornington electorate and all of Victoria. Criminal offences on the Mornington Peninsula have gone up 32 per cent in 12 months. What is the minister doing about providing more resources and powers to Mornington police to cope with this crime crisis? Local police are doing their best, but Labor’s policies are not helping, such as weakening bail laws, scrapping move-on laws, failing to ban machetes, reducing Mornington police reception hours and not filling the 1100 police shortage. In the last week we have seen reports about two people being arrested following an alleged kidnapping and false imprisonment in Mornington; a man charged with conduct endangering life after dousing a person with petrol and chasing them with a blowtorch late last year in Hastings; and a man charged for alleged assault and carjacking in Frankston. These are just some examples. It is time Labor got serious about crime.