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Role Occupant The Hon. Andrew McIntosh, MP
Phone 03 8684 0900
Fax Number 03 8684 0980
Email Address
andrew.mcintosh@parliament.vic.gov.au
Website
www.parliament.vic.gov.au...
Portfolio Minister for Corrections
Minister for Crime Prevention
Minister responsible for the establishment of an anti-corruption commission
Other Roles Committee Member
Committee Member
Member for Kew
Minister for Corrections
Minister responsible for the establishment of an anti-corruption commission
Address Level 26
121 Exhibition Street
Melbourne
Victoria, 3000
Parliamentary Party Liberal Party
Electorate Kew
Dear Andrew,
The Government needs to use our Tax Payers Dollars on Crime Prevention.
I personally would not mind spending cuts in the Arts for instance or Environment/Climate Change, how much is spent on our Gaming Portfolio, cuts can be made there as well?
Our Families need to be safe on the streets first! Tax Payers Dollars need to urgently be spent on Crime Prevention, Police Recruitment, Recruitment of Community Support Workers to help PREVENT CRIME.
I’m sure you could put a few lay people down with the government Portfolios and they will work out quickly which ones to put aside and which ones need a huge injection of money. Crime Prevention should come first! Community Safety comes first!
Politicians need to look at some of the Models used overseas as what they are doing re Crime Prevention, the UK for instance and I think some places in the US use Comminity Support Officers, link below. CCTV can deter but we need the presence of MORE uniformed Officers on the street as well. There is an urgency for these things to be done.
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What’s the use spending Billions of Tax Payer’s Dollars on Climate change, when we are not safe on our streets? We need an overhaul in our Sentencing Laws, (Life should mean Life), we need Community Safety and we need it now.
More money for Community Safety, CCTV, More Police Presence, Community Support Officers
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/CrimeJusticeAndTheLaw/ThePolice/DG_181738
Crims cost $90k each at Geelong jails
http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2011/02/11/242031_news_pf.html
EVERY prisoner in Geelong’s jails is costing us almost $90,000 a year, according to Corrections Victoria.
More than $55.2 million was spent to house the 624 prisoners at Marngoneet Correctional Centre and Barwon Prison, near Lara, between June 2009 and June 2010.
The average operating expenditure per prisoner was $242.65 a day, which included security, food and accommodation.
Crime Victims Support Association president Noel McNamara said the cost was outrageous.
“Why should we pay for them?” he said.
“They get the best food, they don’t go to work, they sit back and watch television.
“They get it too easy and that is why they keep going back.”
Mr McNamara said inmates should be forced to pay for the cost of their incarceration.
“Bring on the chain gangs, they should be working around the floods,” he said.
“And if they can’t pay it, they should pay it back when they get out.”
Thank you,
