Gungahlin police station to go 24/7

Written by Alan Kerlin Tuesday, 05 August 2008 12:11

The Gungahlin police station is to go over to around-the-clock operations.

GCC talked with Police Minister Simon Corbell about exactly this at the Meet the Ministers meeting on Monday 5 August. His response was that he has additional staff coming online soon, so it would be a matter of timing.

Today he is announcing that the station will receive 24 additional officers and two additional cars, allowing for an expansion to a six-team roster system.

Start date is down for January. Would be better if we could bring this forward to before the busy Christmas period though.

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Interestingly, Liberals leader Zed focussed on Simon Corbell's media release stating that the police station could move to 24/7 operations 'now Gungahlin's population had reached 32,000' when Gungahlin reached that point at least two years ago.

The Chronicle reports on the outcome: