Constituency questions
Northern Metropolitan Region
Mr ONDARCHIE (Northern Metropolitan) (12:35): (1672) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Police. Greenvale residents are concerned about unsafe hooning and the illegal dumping of commercial and building rubbish in new estates. Recently I was grateful to be invited by local advocate Mennan Yelkenci and Cr Jim Overend to meet with Greenvale residents and hear their concerns, and I am grateful to the residents who came and spoke to us about their challenges. Greenvale is such a diverse and wonderful community, a mix of many Victorians building new homes and long-established residential areas, but the feedback I got is they want to be in a cleaner and safer suburb in which to raise their families. To better protect my residents my question to the minister is: will the minister commit to extra police patrols to better deter hooning on Somerton Road, Barrymore Road and Greenvale Drive and illegal dumping of rubbish in new estates west of Mickleham Road and new estates north of Somerton Road? Greenvale residents want a better and cleaner suburb in which to raise their families.