South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:42): (1599) My constituency question is to the Minister for Police. In light of a recent vicious and terrifying attempted carjacking attack on a 29-year-old female at a Princes Highway service station in Dandenong, where the victim was confronted by three men who subsequently attacked her with a machete, Minister, what steps are being taken to upgrade policing amid safety concerns in Dandenong? With countless stories of crime and assaults in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, what steps are also being taken to upgrade policing amid safety concerns in Cranbourne, Narre Warren and Frankston? In recent years violent crime increased by 2.7 per cent to 4444 incidents per 100,000 residents in Greater Dandenong alone, and this latest incident has just reinforced the community’s fears, along with other events that have taken place in my communities.