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Law system hinders police efforts says Glare
ChiefCommissioner of Police,
Mr Kelvin Glare, criticised the
legal system in an address to
final year Marketing students at
Chisholm.
In his address on the subject of
'Law, Order and Social
Responsibility,' Mr Glare pointed
out that major crimes are escalating
at an alarming rate (up to 9.8 per
cent this year) and that police
resources have not been able to
keep pace.
"The police should be concentrating
on crime prevention but it is taken
up with fighting it under a legal
system that gives all the advantages
to the criminals", he said.
Mr Glare described the important
pro-active initiatives the police had
taken including Neighbourhood
Watch, Operation Noah and Crime
Stoppers.
In areas where police efforts had
been targetted such as car thefts,
they had been very successful.
"Over recent years the Police Force
has made a conscious effort to raise
its standing in the community.
IGNORANCE OF POllCE LIMITS
"However, many are ignorant of the
limits on police powers which
makes their job very difficult ", he
said.
He believed the Victorian Police
Force to be one of the best and that
corruption was minimal.
Mr Glare said tertiary education was
now strongly encouraged in the
Police Force. Chisholm runs an
Associate Diploma in Police Studies
which has graduated over 80 police
since the cou rse commenced.
Mr Glare raised a number of other
major issues, including the carrying
of guns, pointing out the dangers
police faced dealing with armed
criminals.
Above, Police Commissioner, Mr Kel
Glare.
He concluded his address with a
call for Victorian integrated crime
strategy, education in schools on the
consequences of breeching the law
and on citizenship responsibilities.
"In the final analyses, crime was not
a police problem but the problem of
everyone", he said.