00:02A machete attack close to her business has this gym owner hoping one of the major parties
00:07will give crime a one-two punch.
00:10It's not the safe community that we once had out here.
00:14The Coalition's released its plan ahead of November's showdown.
00:17What we need is more police.
00:20Three thousand new police officers in fact, with half to come from the UK, Ireland and
00:25New Zealand.
00:25Overseas recruits will get a $5,000 relocation allowance and a promise to reopen 40 police
00:32stations that are closed or operating under reduced hours.
00:35I'm tired of hearing that Victorians are not safe in their homes, on the streets and in
00:41businesses.
00:42We welcome their willingness to have a brave commitment to actually try something different.
00:48But some have taken a different view.
00:51A one policy strategy of a Liberal leader who is running scared in Nepean right now.
00:58Simply by investing a whole lot of money in the police force doesn't work.
01:02It's like having a cake with one or two ingredients and wondering why the cake doesn't rise.
01:06The opposition says this plan mirrors a similar one in Western Australia, where the government
01:11promised to hire 950 officers, including from overseas.
01:15Despite that attempt, the force fell well short of its intended target.
01:20They've actually had more than 4,000 applications for the program, 1,500 of which are police officers
01:26from the countries that I mentioned.
01:28Boosting police numbers to curb crime.
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