Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2)
2008-04-29 Daily Xml

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POLICE STATIONS, NEW

The Hon. SANDRA KANCK (14:57): Would the minister please explain what a shopfront office is and what its operational purpose is?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Police, Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning) (14:57): It is a place where people can go to report matters to the police. We have the patrol bases where police operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, but the shopfronts provide more convenient access to local communities to report matters to the police, such as any crime they might have experienced, renew various licences and other services that police officers provide. They provide the basic services to people. Patrol bases, of course, are where the police patrols operate from.