Helensburgh Police Station | November 18, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

WATCH: NSW Premier Chris Minns speaking at the opening of the new Helensburgh Police Station on Monday, November 18, 2024. Video by Nadine Morton

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00:00for an exciting announcement and that is a brand new police station for Helensburg.

00:04Look on its face it's not the the most grand building that the New South Wales Government

00:10will build but what is extraordinary is how quick it's got knocked up and I think that's

00:15a real tribute to the New South Wales Police for working hard to get this facility up and running

00:21as quickly as possible and I was joking earlier that we might have to recruit Karen and her team

00:26to build some metros or some roads or even some residential housing because this has been in

00:30record time and exactly what the local community needs. Marianne is absolutely right the community

00:36has been promised a new police station for a long time and I remember touring the old one

00:41from the 60s or 70s that genuinely hadn't been updated for a long period of time.

00:46It was a reminder of how police work has changed in the state over those intervening decades and

00:51how we need to have modern facilities for a new police force that's focused on keeping the

00:56community safe. This is just the beginning of our investment in the north of Woolloongong when it

01:01comes to police resources. There'll be a dedicated car that's responsible for the north of Woolloongong

01:11local area command when the cars in the station intervene with the police station and staff

01:16but as we grow one of the good things about this station is as the police force grows

01:21and as the community north of Woolloongong grows there's the capacity to staff it on a permanent

01:27rotation as well as include more police officers from this station as part of their daily shift.