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Gunnedah Highway Patrol

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Subjects -  Police: New South Wales
Speakers - Speaker; Draper Mr Peter; Scully Mr Carl
Business - Questions Without Notice


    GUNNEDAH HIGHWAY PATROL
Page: 2121


    Mr PETER DRAPER: My question without notice is addressed to the Minister for Police. Will the Minister update the House on the initiative to establish a permanent highway patrol presence in Gunnedah?

    Mr CARL SCULLY: The honourable member for Tamworth should tell his electorate that the Coalition does not want him to be heard in this House. The honourable member for Tamworth has made strong representations to me about increasing the number of highway patrol officers in Gunnedah.

    Mr Andrew Stoner: Point of order: Under Standing Order 140 questions are to be without notice. The Minister is referring to representations made by the honourable member for Tamworth.

    Mr SPEAKER: Order! Again the Leader of The Nationals is wasting time in this Chamber.

    Mr Andrew Stoner: If he has made representations, the question is not without notice, it is a dorothy dix question.

    Mr SPEAKER: Order! I call the Leader of The Nationals to order.

    Mr CARL SCULLY: The Leader of The Nationals made representations about Kempsey Police Station. I went up and had a look and said "Yes, there is a good case for it", and he is going to get one. Sometimes I wonder if the Opposition is on a parallel universe. The honourable member for Tamworth has made strong representations about extra highway patrol officers. I indicate to him that following our discussions I spoke to the local area commander, Tony Jefferson, and put the honourable member's case to him. I said that I supported it. The commander indicated that he would favourably consider the case for three extra highway patrol officers at Gunnedah and an extra vehicle, but that he would like to discuss it at greater length with the honourable member and his senior police. I invite the member to do that. I will discuss this matter further with the member and the commander next week.

    Mr SPEAKER: Order! The honourable member for Clarence will come to order.

    Mr CARL SCULLY: I take this opportunity to say that the Leader of the Opposition was on, I think, 2DU this morning and got absolutely castigated. I call for good behaviour by the Opposition from now until the election. They have been very naughty boys and girls when it comes to misinterpreting Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

    Mrs Jillian Skinner: Patronising.

    Mr CARL SCULLY: No, the honourable member for North Shore has not been. However, a lot of her colleagues have. They are getting the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research figures, tearing them apart, reconstituting them, and giving a story that they pretend is true.

    Mr Malcolm Kerr: Point of order: The Minister is no longer answering the question. He may appear to be but he has introduced a new subject.

    Mr SPEAKER: Order! I draw the Minister's attention to the precise wording of the question and the need to respond to it.

    Mr CARL SCULLY: The precise wording of the question requires me to seriously consider policing in Gunnedah. We are doing that. The question also requires me to inform the House of the mischief the Opposition is getting up to on police numbers.


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