They use to do this regularly. Growing up I always saw cops walking around shopping centres.
Then all of a sudden they disappeared and all we saw was shady looking security guards.
CatsCatsDoges on
Honestly, as someone who used to work in a shopping centre – I welcome this. There’s a lot of shady characters and security don’t do much.
Excabbla on
………. Great……… 🙄
I just love having another thing to stress me out at work for the entire fucking year
gazmal on
“There was a 73 per cent drop in retail theft stock loss in January, year-on-year, as well as a 50 per cent drop in violent events during December, according to the council’s figures.”
These figures sound crazy. Will be interesting to see next batch of crime stats. Highly doubt having a few PSO’s caused this much improvement in the area.
NotUrAverageBoo on
PSO‘s and off duty cops. – “Protective services officers and off-duty police officers will continue to patrol suburban shopping centres until the end of the year to deter violence and curb anti-social behaviour.”
universe93 on
I work at one of the centres and good. They’re needed unfortunately. We kick out multiple people every week, usually teenagers messing around in the store and throwing things but sometimes due to more serious incidences from people who are drunk or drug affected. They’ve picked up a few people as well who we banned from the store and came back in and who turned out to have outstanding warrants.
readthatlastyear on
Can we just agree this is a good use of resources. Protect the public….
Jet90 on
Will shopping centres foot the bill? Where are the police being pulled from?
Unfair_Pop_8373 on
They should be deployed in places like Chapel St as well.
ElectionLegal on
I work at a shopping centre in the CBD and I’m so glad to hear this. Although there is security, they are so useless and don’t show up half the time when you call them which makes us feel so unsafe considering we’re a team of only women in their late teens – early 20s and when you how many junkies come into the store it’s nice to know there’s extra backup.
Kageru on
… so this is additional public resources being used to protect private commercial interests? Shouldn’t that be an indication that the shopping centres need to invest more into their security along with potential changes to the law to support the issues they are encountering?
Patrolling cops are pretty rare in the CBD these days… unlike during covid where you actually saw them patrolling.
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After the election. No surprises there
They use to do this regularly. Growing up I always saw cops walking around shopping centres.
Then all of a sudden they disappeared and all we saw was shady looking security guards.
Honestly, as someone who used to work in a shopping centre – I welcome this. There’s a lot of shady characters and security don’t do much.
………. Great……… 🙄
I just love having another thing to stress me out at work for the entire fucking year
“There was a 73 per cent drop in retail theft stock loss in January, year-on-year, as well as a 50 per cent drop in violent events during December, according to the council’s figures.”
These figures sound crazy. Will be interesting to see next batch of crime stats. Highly doubt having a few PSO’s caused this much improvement in the area.
PSO‘s and off duty cops. – “Protective services officers and off-duty police officers will continue to patrol suburban shopping centres until the end of the year to deter violence and curb anti-social behaviour.”
I work at one of the centres and good. They’re needed unfortunately. We kick out multiple people every week, usually teenagers messing around in the store and throwing things but sometimes due to more serious incidences from people who are drunk or drug affected. They’ve picked up a few people as well who we banned from the store and came back in and who turned out to have outstanding warrants.
Can we just agree this is a good use of resources. Protect the public….
Will shopping centres foot the bill? Where are the police being pulled from?
They should be deployed in places like Chapel St as well.
I work at a shopping centre in the CBD and I’m so glad to hear this. Although there is security, they are so useless and don’t show up half the time when you call them which makes us feel so unsafe considering we’re a team of only women in their late teens – early 20s and when you how many junkies come into the store it’s nice to know there’s extra backup.
… so this is additional public resources being used to protect private commercial interests? Shouldn’t that be an indication that the shopping centres need to invest more into their security along with potential changes to the law to support the issues they are encountering?
Patrolling cops are pretty rare in the CBD these days… unlike during covid where you actually saw them patrolling.
Good. That’ll help people feel safe.