23 March 2022
Jacquie Petrusma,
Minister for Police, Hearth and Emergency Administration
The Tasmanian Liberal Authorities continues to put money into our police to maintain our communities secure by recruiting 308 further cops and constructing new police stations.
Final month I used to be honoured to attend the opening of the brand new $5 million New Norfolk Police Station, and final week I used to be additionally delighted to attend the opening of the brand new $5 million Longford Police Station.
The Longford Police Station can also be complemented by a brand new, state-of-the-art $1 million constructing particularly designed and constructed for our specialist police sources.
By way of our elevated funding in further cops, Tasmania Police can concentrate on concentrating on and prosecuting offenders, and this has been evident in current anti-social behaviour blitzes and focused highway security operations.
These operations are about defending lives on our roads; encouraging secure driving practices; and issuing infringements for the deadly 5 – dashing, not carrying a seatbelt, driving with medicine or alcohol, being distracted or utilizing a cell phone, or driving whereas fatigued.
Tasmania Police undertook considered one of these operations on the West Coast earlier this month, leading to 4 defect notices, 2 individuals charged with exceeding the alcohol restrict, 1 for illicit medicine, 38 fees for dashing, 1 cost of not carrying a seatbelt and a pair of fees for utilizing a cell phone while driving.
As well as, in February, police undertook focused operations within the Huon Valley over 5 days, which resulted in additional than 300 roadworthiness and compliance inspections, in addition to 7 automobiles being seized and impounded, and 30 drivers issued defect notices.
Disappointingly, Police additionally caught 6 drivers exceeding the prescribed alcohol restrict, and fined 3 passengers for possessing open containers of alcohol whereas travelling in automobiles.
One driver was arrested after being caught hooning at Geeveston and had their automobile seized, 3 drivers had been driving unregistered automobiles and failing to put on seatbelts, 2 folks had been driving while disqualified, 5 drivers had been issued fines for inflicting pointless noise and smoke, and 18 motorists had been detected dashing – considered one of whom was arrested and the automobile seized.
Launceston police focused the Launceston CBD and surrounding suburbs over the March lengthy weekend and caught 17 drink drivers, and an additional 11 had been detected with a bootleg drug of their physique. Two automobiles had been detected hooning and each drivers arrested, together with 14 visitors infringement notices issued, 6 drug diversions, 29 motorized vehicle defects and 14 formal instructions to depart the CBD.
All of those excellent outcomes reveal that if folks select to offend, they are going to be caught, particularly as we’ve elevated the variety of cops in Tasmania, and we’re persevering with to recruit extra.
There have been 70 new Tasmania Police graduates final yr and 95 this yr, together with the current commencement of twenty-two new cops this month as a part of the Authorities’s plan to spice up police numbers by an extra 308 officers.
Tasmania Police has suggested that these excessive visibility visitors operation blitzes will stay a precedence in response to incidents of hooning and harmful driving on our rural roads and highways.
I congratulate Tasmania Police for working with their native communities and for the nice success of those strategic and focused operations.
Our investments in Tasmania Police are in stark distinction to the Labor Opposition who cruelly reduce 108 officers when in authorities, and in reality left Tasmanians with fewer cops in 2014 than after they first elected 16 years earlier in 1998.
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