Tuesday, 12 May 2026

 David LIMBRICK (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:03): (2308) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Police and Minister for Community Safety. On 14 April I attended the Berwick traders crime and safety meeting organised in collaboration with the City of Casey. When you sit in a room full of residents telling their stories, it really brings home the crime crisis and its impacts. People told stories of persistent retail crime. They do not even bother reporting it anymore.

Casey council presented their survey data on perceptions of safety, and in short, it is very bad and getting worse. The Victoria Police members who attended had to apologise to people that they simply did not have the resources to attend every incident. They explained that on night shifts there are sometimes only 12 police officers to cover a population nearly the size of Tasmania’s. When will the City of Casey have adequate police resources so that when residents call police, someone is able to show up?