Wrong time for police

No it is not enough to have five or perhaps seven police present in West St, Umina, at 5.30pm.

Real criminals will emerge to kick in the doors and vandalise the windows of businesses on the Woy Woy Peninsula in the small hours.

I am supported in my call for an additional police car on the Woy Woy Peninsula to remain there during the wee small hours between 8 pm and 7 am each night.

What I am concerned about is that five police are out and about at 5.30 in the evening. Inquiries I have made of the duty officer at Gosford allow me to understand this presence is not related at all to my calls for an extra car.

It is simply a part of the normal roster which results in these increased police numbers at various localities from time to time.

I call for a safe work place for my police, and I expect to hear the local Minister John Della Bosca and the Local Laborite Marie Andrews to call for exactly that in our State Parliament in the next few days!

Edward James Umina