My adjournment is for the Minister for Police and Minister for Crime Prevention, and the action I seek is that the minister come and join me for another visit to Sunshine police station. Now, as the minister knows, this is not the first time I have had him out to visit our fantastic local police stations that service my community in Melbourne’s west. The last visit we had was in fact extremely productive and engaging. It is always important for us to be able to sit down with local police who are on the beat each and every single day keeping our community safe to hear about the things that they need to do to do exactly that.
Over the last couple of months several locals have taken the time to sit down with me to talk a lot about community safety issues in and around the Sunshine area. It was absolutely fantastic to sit down and listen and participate in these discussions about how we can better keep the community safe. I am pleased to say that this is something that our government takes very seriously and responds to appropriately, whether it is through investing in 3600 new police officers – of which 129 have been allocated to the Brimbank division that services Sunshine – or even, just recently, by cracking down on knife and machete crime through the legislation that is being debated in the other place this week. It is why I welcome the opportunity for the minister and I to sit down once again with local police in Sunshine and discuss these issues and ideas in a productive way.
