Thursday, 10 September 2026

 David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (13:05): (2622) I am also worried about local police stations, and it is clear that many of the police stations in my area are in the gun. We have seen the announcement that Southbank will go on 4 October. We have already seen Ashburton closed and reductions in other police stations as well. My question to the Minister for Police is: will you guarantee that Camberwell, Prahran, St Kilda, Mount Waverley, none of these police stations, and Oakleigh included, will be downgraded or have their hours reduced in any way? We have got crime rising across Southern Metropolitan Region. We have seen really very significant increases in crime over the last three years, and yet we are having the wind back of police and police station hours. It is not community safety that is brought to the fore, and it should be.