Victoria’s crime wave is the worst in half a century according to Ron Iddles, a former homicide detective and current police union secretary:
Mr Iddles can’t think of another time when crime in his home state was worse.
He pointed to problems with ice, the contemporary issue of carjackings and home invasions and “regular” assaults on police…
He said Victoria needed more police officers, better technology and to look at methods used in NSW and other jurisdictions.
The claim comes amid yet another assault by Melbourne’s notorious Apex Gang, whereby a 24-year old man was attacked unprovoked, stabbed 11 times, and left with life threatening injuries:
Victoria Police spokesperson Amelia Penhall said one man was armed with a knife and the other two men threatened the victim and his friend.They fled, but the victim fell into a gutter where he was stabbed, kicked, and punched, before the suspects fled.
The victim was then taken to Dandenong Hospital by friends, where he was treated for life-threatening injuries.
Victorian Police claim they are being overrun and desperately need a big boost in policing numbers to maintain law and order:
Victorian lives are at risk because police don’t have enough officers and are forced to juggle high priority jobs, their union says.
A Police Association survey of almost half the state’s frontline sergeants said they regularly did not have the frontline numbers to get to jobs.
A quarter said they are holding Priority 1 jobs (carjackings, aggravated burglaries, assaults) for more than an hour due to understaffing.
In one case, thieves who stole a car from a house in Berwick had enough time to go back and steal another car before police arrived 62 minutes later.
“That’s just not acceptable,” Police Association secretary Ron Iddles told reporters on Wednesday.
“We’re are at a crisis point.
“I think they’re actually playing Russian roulette with people’s lives”…
The Police Association is calling for 3300 additional police to be trained and dispatched over the next six years.
Meanwhile, suburban vigilante groups have emerged to fight back against the criminals. These include the far right-wing patriot group, “Soldiers of Odin Australia”, as well as various neighbourhood patrol groups.
Chalk this up as yet another victim of the population ponzi. Melbourne’s population has ballooned by around 1 million people over the past 12 years, mostly via immigration, but police numbers have failed to keep up. And with it, levels of aggravated crimes has soared.
If our governments are not careful, they will lose the community’s support for immigration and multiculturalism, feeding the rise of party’s like Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, just as we have seen in Europe.
The wise course of action is to dramatically lower the immigration intake to sustainable levels to allow the nation to repair its infrastructure deficit, restore public services and housing affordability, and improve overall livability.
