North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Nick McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (14:05): (1205) My constituency question is for the Minister for Police in the other place. Sadly, what I ask the minister is this very simple question: when will the PSOs return to Ringwood East train station? The government say that Ringwood East train station is open. Let us not forget they have spent close to a billion dollars on two level crossing removals and a new station, and for months and months there have been no PSOs at Ringwood East train station. There is a hub; that hub is empty. This is all happening at precisely the time we are having a crime crisis and we are having unprecedented rates of aggravated burglaries occurring in Ringwood East. To think for a moment that there is no correlation between the two would be a foolish assumption. It is absolutely critical that PSOs are returned to Ringwood East train station with great haste. They should never have been removed. There should have been a temporary allocation during the construction period, and it simply has not happened. Minister, when will they be back?