GLEN EIRA: Frightened locals hire private security
Frightened communities are hiring their own expensive private security because of rising crimr rates, Caulfield MLA David Southwick (pictured) has told State Parliament.
“I know in my electorate in Glen Eira 150,000-odd residents across the City of Glen Eira for many, many years had one divisional van looking after the whole area,” Mr Southwick said.
“We have a situation now because of the uplift in crime where residents have had to take the situation into their own hands and employ private security guards to guard their homes from evening until morning.
“It costs about $300 a month for about 50 people to come together to pool in and do this.
“Since [October] and the increase and spike in crime I am now realising that we are not the only ones, and there have been many people doing the same thing.
“Just last month the Police Association of Victoria blasted the Government, saying:’While police are busy doing the very best they can, we know that courts are just being able to be a revolving door, and they do not have enough resources on the front line. And the consequence is we are now seeing
neighbourhoods banding together to find their own private security – and not for the first time. This is unacceptable’.”