South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:56): (1827) My question is to the Minister for Police, and I ask: given the recent implementation of the statewide machete ban and the ongoing concerns about youth violence in my South-Eastern Metropolitan Region, particularly with statistics showing that a knife seizure in Dandenong South last year saw police seizing a record 930 knives, will you provide a breakdown of the number of machetes and other dangerous bladed weapons seized by Victoria Police in the local government cities of Casey, Greater Dandenong and Frankston during the recent amnesty period in our machete bins and the breakdown costs of the machete program and targeted resources so that we can have scrutiny of how much this program is costing per machete for my constituents in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Region?