Larry Williams Drive

Look, maybe I'm being naïve, but I'm not that stressed at the news that 3 people were allowed to start police college without passing the fitness test. Were you? I mean, it seems to be more important to just have police officers and more police officers walking the beat and providing a reassuring presence than it is to be absolutely sure that they can do a vertical jump and run 2.5 km in 12 odd minutes. I don't know - when was the last time you saw Bobby sprinting 2ks down the road and jumping over a wall to catch somebody, right? Doesn't seem like it's all that frequently happening in modern policing - certainly in cities. But it doesn't mean we haven't got a problem. We've got a problem here. The problem is that the Government is still pretending that it can pump out 500 new police officers by November 27. That's not gonna happen. I mean, they are trying absolutely everything to be able to meet their target. They've bumped up the number of training spots they've got at the police college from 80 t