Call for more police at night

Over 50 signatures have been collected from among concerned business operators and others calling for an increased nighttime police presence.

Organised by Umina businessman Mr Ed James, the petition read: "We, the undersigned residents, property owners and business operators of the Peninsula, support Mr Edward James in his public call for a police patrol car to be circulating full time on the Woy Woy Peninsula between the hours of 8pm and 7am each night."

The petition called for the car "in addition to the current unsatisfactory arrangement where Peninsula police are often called away to other areas, leaving our community isolated by time, exposed to crime, assaults, arson and criminal property damage."

Press release, May 18 Edward James