Police Minister Brent Potter and Police Commissioner Michael Murphy have contradicted themselves in interviews about how they will provide a pledged 50 extra police in Alice Springs, while the union representing police said they believed officers would have to be brought in from remote communities, recently estimating the Territory was about 200 officers short.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles and newly-minted Police Minister Brent Potter issued a press release last Tuesday outlining the government’s “summer plan for a safer Alice Springs” in which it claimed it would be a “zero-tolerance summer for antisocial behaviour”.
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Fyles started the spin; Potter fudged it police commissioner calls it as locally resourced. Fyles crew no clue.