Mr KIELY - 2007-11-27
Can the Chief Minister advise the House on what he unveiled at lunchtime, and how this will help police provide a safer community?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, today I was very pleased to attend Casuarina Police Station with my Deputy Chief Minister to unveil the plans for the new police station. This is a government which will continue to invest in our police force, continue to recruit additional police officers, continue to provide better infrastructure and equipment for our police force. This has been demonstrated with new police stations at Humpty Doo, Kintore, Darwin CBD, Numbulwar, and many other stations have had upgrades over the years.
This is an election commitment being fulfilled by this government. It is an election commitment that badly needs to be filled, because the Casuarina Police Station is over 30 years old. It is very tired and run down. It is a facility that does not provide for a modern workplace in terms of processing people who have been arrested and charged and taken into custody. We are very pleased to be going to tender in the next couple of weeks for the new station at Casuarina. It will be state-of-the-art. There will be wireless communication all the way through it. The flows of prisoners through that facility will mean that police have to spend less time on administration and will be able to get out on the street, in the community, protecting Territorians.
We will accommodate an additional 33 members at Casuarina, to expand the police presence in the northern suburbs. I am sure that is welcomed by all residents of the northern suburbs. This is on top of the additional 200 police in our police force today, that were in our police force in 2002 and 2003. So the fulfilment of another election commitment and further demonstration that this is a government that will continue to resource, equip and tool our police force in the fight against crime.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, today I was very pleased to attend Casuarina Police Station with my Deputy Chief Minister to unveil the plans for the new police station. This is a government which will continue to invest in our police force, continue to recruit additional police officers, continue to provide better infrastructure and equipment for our police force. This has been demonstrated with new police stations at Humpty Doo, Kintore, Darwin CBD, Numbulwar, and many other stations have had upgrades over the years.
This is an election commitment being fulfilled by this government. It is an election commitment that badly needs to be filled, because the Casuarina Police Station is over 30 years old. It is very tired and run down. It is a facility that does not provide for a modern workplace in terms of processing people who have been arrested and charged and taken into custody. We are very pleased to be going to tender in the next couple of weeks for the new station at Casuarina. It will be state-of-the-art. There will be wireless communication all the way through it. The flows of prisoners through that facility will mean that police have to spend less time on administration and will be able to get out on the street, in the community, protecting Territorians.
We will accommodate an additional 33 members at Casuarina, to expand the police presence in the northern suburbs. I am sure that is welcomed by all residents of the northern suburbs. This is on top of the additional 200 police in our police force today, that were in our police force in 2002 and 2003. So the fulfilment of another election commitment and further demonstration that this is a government that will continue to resource, equip and tool our police force in the fight against crime.
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