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We’ll make sure that under a Coalition Government the independent broad-based anti-corruption commission we have in this state is genuine, and that it’s not a catch-up, or a patch-up, or a cover-up. 
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  • Under Labor violent crime has reached record highs and assaults are up, but police patrol hours are down.
    Many Victorian families are living in real fear and face rising levels of violent crime and too few police on the frontline to protect them.

    Labor spends the least per capita on policing of any state.

    Police are struggling to respond to a new record rate of rising violence in Victoria with more than 43,000 violent crimes recorded in 2008/09. When Labor first came to power, there were only 31,000 violent crimes recorded a year.

    During this period assault has also increased from 19,000 incidents in 1999/2000 to 33,000 incidents last year.

    Declining frontline police numbers and record levels of assault and other serious crimes mean more Victorians are confronted with crime and violence in their community because of John Brumby's soft approach to law and order.

    VIOLENT CRIME SOARS UNDER LABOR
      1999-2000 2008-2009 % change
    Total Violent
    Crime Incidents    		 31,372 43,971 ^ 40.2%
    Assault 19,856 33,668 ^ 69.6%
    Rape 1,170 1,543 ^ 31.9%
    Weapons
    Offences    		 4,554 7,142 ^ 56.8%
    Property
    Damage    		 38,360 54,122 ^ 41.1%
           


    VICTORIA HAS FEWER POLICE ON THE BEAT THAN ANY OTHER STATE



See how John Brumby is not listening to Victorians about violence


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Today Tonight report

The Victorian Coalition will establish a broad-based independent anti-corruption commission if elected. There are now growing calls in Victoria for an independent body to examine serious issues including claims of police corruption linked to the murder of gangland criminal Carl Williams at Barwon Prison. This ABC TV 7.30 Report segment shows that the Brumby Government has continued to resist calls for an independent, broad-based anti-corruption commission.

“This unprecedented investment by the Coalition in policing will see a dramatic increase in frontline police numbers. It will have a huge impact in protecting communities across Victoria and will be the largest single increase in frontline police numbers over one term of government in the history of Victoria.”

Ted Baillieu press conference 06 April 2010

  • 12 JULY 2010 – Channel 10 News
    Five years after the Labor Government promised to introduce a “smart” ticketing system, myki is being slammed as the government's white elephant, with more than $1 billion of taxpayers’ money spent on a system that still does not work.
  • 23 JUNE 2010 – Channel 7 News
    The Auditor-General has uncovered $3 billion in secret government deals with a third of major contracts, including public transport deals, hidden from the public. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu says John Brumby is running a secret state.
  • 14 JUNE 2010 – Channel 9 News
    John Brumby has spent over $1.2 million of taxpayers' money monitoring the media and analysing transcripts of every story broadcast or written about his government. This is on top of the cost of employing 26 media advisers.

  • New penalty for Vic bail offences
    05 July 2010

    Criminals will face more jail time if they commit offences while on bail if the coalition wins the Victorian state election.

    Offenders will get up to an extra three months inside if they are found guilty of an indictable offence while on bail, Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu told the Herald Sun newspaper.

    The policy is the opposition's latest portion of the law and order policy it will take to the November election.

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  • New penalty for bail offences under Libs
    05 July 2010

    A Coalition government would introduce electronic monitoring bracelets for the most serious offenders awaiting trial under a tightening of Victoria's bail laws.

    Under the opposition policy, detailed on Monday, magistrates and judges would have the power to force borderline bail applicants to wear the devices as a safeguard for their release from custody.

    Electronic monitoring would apply to the most serious alleged offenders, including murderers, who have to show exceptional circumstances why they deserve bail.

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  • Members of group that bashed man to partial blindness all avoid prison
    01 July 2010

    A GANG of youths whose bashing of an Indian man blinded him in one eye have all avoided jail.

    Majang Ngor, 20, the last of the gang to face court, was yesterday given an eight-month suspended jail term for the unprovoked attack on Kanan Kharbanda.

    Prosecutors had wanted him jailed for four years.

    … Shadow attorney-general Robert Clark said it was extraordinary that none would spend time behind bars and said it is weak sentencing laws that allowed the gang members to walk free.

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