Bus cops and public housing officers to be given guns under latest CLP crime reforms | NT Independent

Bus cops and public housing officers to be given guns under latest CLP crime reforms

by | Jun 18, 2025 | Cops, News, NT Politics, Subscriber | 6 comments

Following the previous Labor government’s move to arm public housing and bus safety officers w
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6 Comments

  1. Not like the wonderful, multicultural, happy place many of us once knew. Rather, this is behaviour typical of a government under major siege, when force is used – rather than smart collective, consultative government in an attempt to bring people together. This is likely to end in a far worse place, due to incompetent, unimaginative, naive government.

  2. Unfortunately we have to celebrate Don in finally using positive and affirmative verb clauses this time instead of words such as “inability”.

    While clapping that mind shift we would like to highlight the short memory you all have.

    Here’s video of 3 Darwin Casuarina blue shirts, so-called ‘security guards’, described as ‘quasi-police’ “stomping on the head” and beating of an Aboriginal man….”like a soccer ball.”

    Like the Rodney King beating by 4 white police officers in Los Angeles in 1991:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFUqajkrH8

    And what an equally short jump it is for those not properly trained wannabe quasi-Police officers, who were probably bullied in school, to want to take out their lack of control in life on someone less able than themselves, with guns.

    Think firearms instead of steel capped boots.

    LiaR, and your collective CLP, if all you have left is ‘giving more guns to more people’ to “target antisocial behaviour in public places” then you have truly lost the debate and the desire to understand what the drivers of so-called ‘anti-social behaviour’ actually is.

    You’re slowly turning Australia into America.

    Please step down before you get more people unnecessarily killed on your watch.

    Seriously.

    You, personally, and as a group called the CLP, are a real and present danger to our communities.

    More people are going to lose their lives if you continue with this kind of idiotic and reactionary decision making.

    The more guns on the street, regardless of who’s controlling them, the more deaths are going to happen. Simple arithmetic.

    This will go down in history as a monumental failure of Government. With your name on it.

  3. . . . and so the circle closes. Weep for a territory that we all loved.

  4. I’m sure our First Nations communities will appreciate being shot by a non-Police agency

  5. This is just horrific!
    I think that we should be limiting the number of armed public servants.
    If we are discussing safety, I would feel safer in a room full of countrymen and women than a room full of territory cops.
    If you tell a group of people they are a hammer then everything they see is a nail.

    • Jeff, respectfully
      -Peoples homes are being broken into by zombies on the Court Merry go round!
      -People are being assaulted!
      -Check out todays news article on the fabulous Jovi Boys and the fabulous future the Territory will have with them.
      -Your mates at RDH are being assaulted! The private security guards get busted up daily and the Govt Security Guards stay behind the glass screen!
      -This is all great news for Territorians….til the first shooting….

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