Comments on: What's with Victoria Police?

By: thewetmale

thewetmale — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:45:46 +0000

I would have to agree with Lefty E, the Rum Corps have a certain kind of logic which makes them easier to work with. As Kevin Rudd says, what business needs is certainty
PS: Liam, your line “Market-based policing with a strong private sector incentive structure since 1792.” is gold!

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Wed, 20 May 2009 05:54:01 +0000

Thanks Liamista – and yes I’m comfortable with the Rum Corps brand, as I understand it well. Sure, the QLD regional variant brew packed more of a hangover with the protest-bust chaser, but its essentially the same old-school, NSW recipe.

Dont know what they’re drinking down here: Carlton Crew?

Light on the fuzz, so you can slam it down fast.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:33:35 +0000

[NB for any out-of context readers in blue, last comment is tongue in cheek and not to be taken as anything but banal humour on the subject of pre-Wood Inquiry police force culture]

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:26:31 +0000

If you’re dissatisfied with the public sector’s performance, come on up to the Premier State, Izquierdista. Market-based policing with a strong private sector incentive structure since 1792.

By: Fine

Fine — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:18:20 +0000

I live across the road from a police station so I have hordes of them about. But they still don’t stop the apartment building full of backpackers, just next door to them, from playing doof music till 4 in the morning.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:23:55 +0000

Yep!! Not complaining, just sayin’ – there’s bugger all coppers around.

And yes, I am central. Maybe they’re all out at Broady, or the Res?

By: FDB

FDB — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:53:48 +0000

Or out in the ‘burbs LE. You’re pretty central right?

I moved straight from Perth to Brunswick in 2004 – that’s from monthly random breath tests in Perth to none since. No house party bust-ups at 10pm, no being too paranoid to walk down the street with a beer.

Nice, innit?

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:40:59 +0000

I would add, having come from QLD was a bit like going from Franco’s Spain to the Chistiania Free State in Denmark.

I’m serious: where QLD has too many, VIC is the opposite. There seems to be no coppers on patrol anywhere in Victoria! You never see them until they roll in shooting.

They’re either lazy, understaffed, or in deep cover.

By: sam dempster

sam dempster — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:00:26 +0000

Office of Police Integrity (OPI) white wash serious allegations of Victoria police corruption, they are merely are shop front full of pen pushers that pretend to be doing something about it but do nothing.

By: Frank Calabrese

Frank Calabrese — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:19:10 +0000

[But the reason we don’t have an ICAC probably has more to do with other areas it might investigate. The last thing the ALP wants is an independent body looking into corrupt local governments - not all of the ones that would be looked into are ALP, but nearly. And there are a few other skeletons that might be rattled.]

But that didn’t stop the Gallop Labor Govt here in WA setting up the Crime & Corruption commission, despite it snaring quite a few ALP people in the process, ie Burke, Grills, D’Orazio(though never charged himself, the fact that he was entwined with a crooked panel beater and police officer effectively killed his position as Police Minister, Norm Malborough and Shelley Archer being prime examples.