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| Subject: Since the statists are hopeless, OZschwitz clubs keen on user-pays police Sat Jan 05, 2013 5:08 pm | |
| It worked at the cricket and Bathurst 1000. And the NSW Police Association thinks user-pays police are the key to ridding Kings Cross of drunken yobbos, too.
Yet the Minister for Police, Michael Gallacher, has left an offer from licensed venues to pay for extra police sitting on the table as the party season hits full swing.
A coalition of clubs, pubs, restaurants, cafes and businesses have offered to put up $8000 to hire dozens of private police each weekend.
The Kings Cross Liquor Accord and the Potts Point Partnership, representing 500 businesses, want to introduce a special levy on businesses in the area to pay for private police, who are permitted to work extra shifts as uniformed officers under the user-pays system. Advertisement
But the City of Sydney has deemed the levy too difficult to implement, says the chief executive of the Liquor Accord, Doug Grand.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/clubs-keen-on-userpays-police-20130105-2c9ze.html#ixzz2H8phQrYG
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