The Fyles Government’s “summer plan” to reduce crime in Central Australia is “the definition of madness” for continuing to do the same things, Alice Springs independent MLA Robyn Lambley has said, while the government is promising an “additional” 50 police officers along with a set of initiatives believed to already be in effect.
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles and new Police Minister Brent Potter issued a press release on 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”.
Mr Potter told an Alice Springs press conference on Tuesday there would be 50 “additional” officers brought into Alice as part of Operation Drina, with a focus on alcohol-related offending including assaults, break-ins, and domestic and family violence. Use of handheld scanners to detect metal weapons will also be deployed.
Fyles and Potter couldn’t run a pissup in a brewery, bring on the next election so we have a chance to give these clowns the boot.