The police are doing their best.
I am told that police have had gutful of the revolving door.
Police catch the offenders only to see them walk back out again after being released.
The system is not working, and our community is paying the price.
I’m hearing directly from local police that the state government has lost control of dealing
with offenders.
In the March quarter alone, there were 318 offences in the Gympie Local Government area.
It is more staggering that these offences were recorded in the same period that Gympie was
flooding.
While police were helping locals deal with the impact of floods, they also had to deal with
118 theft offences, 116 drug offences and 117 traffic and related offences as well as 35
unlawful use of a motor vehicle, 65 unlawful entry, 72 assaults and 74 property damage.
This is a problem right across the state.
The State Government is losing control of crime.
The State Government’s attempts to tackle the Youth Crime Crisis in Queensland has
dismally failed.
One year after Labor passed its ‘flagship’ policy to crack down on thugs, crime is still
worsening.
Just three juvenile offenders have been fitted with an electronic monitoring device since the
government promised courts would target hardcore youth offenders.
Shockingly, the government has admitted the failure to issue additional devices was due to an
offender’s “unwillingness to comply” with the court order.
These thugs are running rampant and destroying lives and businesses every day while the
State Government sits on its hands.
A lot of these youth are quickly becoming hardcore recidivist offenders who don’t respect
any authority.
Labor has failed to get youth crime under control, failed to protect our community and failed
to do the right thing by our children.
Young thugs laugh at Labor’s soft laws.
That is why the LNP had repeatedly called for breach of bail as an offence for young
offenders.
If breach of bail was an offence and a young offender broke any one of their bail conditions,
the system would be able to intervene early.
The State Government must strengthen our laws to get these young offenders off the streets.
