QUEENSLAND'S $1.28 BILLION COMMUNITY SAFETY PLAN
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* Expands "Jack's Law", allowing police to stop and search people for weapons at shopping centres, licensed premises, sporting and entertainment venues plus "high-risk retailers" such as service stations
* Makes the deliberate ramming of emergency service vehicles a standalone offence, with offenders facing up to 14 years in jail
* Expands an electronic monitoring trial that fits GPS trackers to offenders
* Prohibits posting or boasting certain offences on social media
* Creates a framework for police to issue take-down notices to social media companies over content depicting crime
* Improves access to children's court proceedings for victims, victims' families and the media
* Increases penalties for unlawful possession of a knife in public and doubling the penalty for a second or subsequent offence
* Introduces legislation to prevent high-risk individuals accessing and using firearms
* Provides a police helicopter for Cairns and the Sunshine Coast-Wide Bay region
* Makes the police Youth Crime Taskforce permanent
* Adds 900 police
WHAT THEY SAID
"It's our plan to support victims, deliver for the frontline, detain offenders to protect the community, intervene early and prevent crime before it occurs." - Premier Steven Miles
"It will deliver for the frontline, it will ensure that offenders are detained when necessary, it will intervene when people offend, and it will prevent crime from occurring in the first place." - Police Minister Mark Ryan
"I'm very pleased to see that we're getting legislation that recognises that people that target our emergency workers and police will be held to account." - Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski
"People need to not only be safe, they need to feel safe as well and this plan goes to the heart of that." - Youth Justice Minister Di Farmer
Australian Associated Press
