Lloyd calls for local police
Federal Member for Robertson Mr Jim Lloyd has called on the State Government to return general duties police officers to Woy Woy Police Station.
The NSW Government had received more than $5128 million of GST revenue "yet continues to refuse" to address the situation, he said.
He called on the NSW Government "to provide increased police numbers and resources to allow our Central Coast police officers to make an impact on the worrying increase of crime on the Central Coast".
Mr Lloyd made the statement while welcoming the Federal Government's new CrimTrac database.
"CrimTrac will provide local police with the state-of-the-art information and investigative tools needed to make our community safer," Mr Lloyd said.
"As well as identifying the guilty, CrimTrac will assist police to exonerate the innocent and solve more crimes more quickly than ever before."
The National Automated Fingerprint Identification System introduced digital and laser technology to scan fingerprints and, for the first time, palm prints into a national searchable database.
The new system will hold about 2.5 million fingerprint records, 4.8 million palm print records and more than 180,000 prints from unsolved crimes.
Previously palm prints, which comprise of about 20 per cent of all prints taken from crime scenes, were unidentifiable.
CrimTrac will also include a National Criminal Investigation DNA Database giving local police access to the latest advances in forensic science.
The database will hold DNA samples collected from convicted criminals and suspects that will be able to be matched nationally against evidence left behind at crime scenes such as saliva, skin, hair or semen.
"CrimTracs new systems will give police the tools they need to take a fresh look at unsolved cases," Mr Lloyd said.
Media release, June 25