Thursday's SA budget will include funding to shift police officers tied up with paperwork back onto the beat.The government is also spending $80 million on road safety initiatives including reduced speed limit s along arterial roads near schools, and red light cameras.
Mr Mullighan said the move would be complemented by other measures, at a combined cost of $36 million, that would eventually see more than 100 officers take up frontline duties." new digital police station initiative … will effectively put a whole range of services online that South Australians can only currently access by visiting a police station in person," he said.
"We are losing far too many officers and can hardly keep up with attrition," Police Association of SA president Mark Carroll said in a statement. "There is rampant crime on the streets at the moment … and there just doesn't seem to be the deterrence in place." The government said the speed limit would be cut to 40 kilometres per hour along "arterial roads" to force drivers to slow down when approaching school zones."We put these in to send a clear message to motorists that we need them to slow down on the roads," Mr Mullighan said.
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