Desperation for a Burleigh Heads police station!

Burleigh heads sees far more violence than Surfer's Paradise now. Does Burleigh need its own Police Station?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The people that work there are working there with fear
because of what's going on in Burley at the moment
and in James Street. So my gorgeous hairdresser was saying
to me that her hobby now comes at the end
of the day so she can walk to her car
at night. It's too scary to walk to the car
at night. She had someone just come into the salon
and lie in the front, just lay down at the

(00:21):
front and wouldn't move, and she called the police and
got everyone out of the salon, so affecting her business,
and the guy just wouldn't move, and then the police
didn't come. Like the police didn't come even they don't
have enough resource.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
So they had to wait for him.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
She had to wait for him to actually.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Just get sick a lying there and move on. And
her story is not the only story. It is happening
a lot which was collated in this brilliant article yesterday.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I also got to say that the nightlife in Berlin
now there's a lot of young people gravitating to Burley
rather than Surface. Still Surface is busy. Yes, Burley's becoming
the new night spot.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
So this is the actual article. Basically, they're saying an
after dark facility needs to emerge because of the party
hub there and as way back as the Blig government,
right one point five million dollars was pledged to build
a facility there and it wasn't built. Now in that
time since an A Bli's government, it's grown so much

(01:20):
that there's now more violence in Burley than there is
in Surfers, and Surfers has its own precinct police precinct
there because it was the party place of the Gold Coast,
but it's not as much anymore. It is now Burley.
And in this particular article they had a police source
who said, we haven't got the time. So the station

(01:41):
that's meant to patrol Burley is Palm Beach and we
do not have the time to go over tullerbudger a Creek.
We are dealing with dB drugs and the homeless at
Palm Beach. There is no way we can go over
Tuller Budge or a creek and do a job. Burley
is on steroids at the moment. The district, which covers
north of Miami Normy Beach, doesn't have the resources to
cover Burly.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Two.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
We haven't got the staff to do an entertainment precinct
there By three in the morning, we have one car
on the road and there's more happening here than surfers.
The pubs are going off at two and three and
there's more violence than surfers.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Pretty shocking, Okay, So to me it's clear, yes.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
So that they should be actioning something to do with
that straight away, not waiting.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, we have an election happening and Herman Voryster is
who is the MP there or going to be or whatever,
So everyone needs to start mentioning this to him so
that it becomes an election promise that we definitely need
a police station there. But I'd like to open up
the phones right now. Are you living, working, being around Burley?

(02:43):
What has been going on?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
What are you saying, what are you seeing?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
What has happened to you? And what would you like
to see happen? Because we cannot lose any more young lives.
Enough's enough, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Double five, seven nine, Give us a call. What are
your thoughts on this? Are you in Burley? Are you
affected by this? We still got this one hundred bucks
up for grabs to spend at Brooklyn Wine and tappers.
Give us a call.