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Overzealous policing kills community spirit

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Sitting outside the high school and St Finbarrs, lurking underneath a bush last week, the clever officers managed to nab loads of naughty mums and dads dropping their children off in the bus zone on the way to work.

Although not a bus in sight I’m sure that this is a valuable piece of police work (and not just revenue raising, for the cynical among us).

It’s a shame that people were not made aware by the clever coppers that they were doing something wrong.

Much better to give everyone a $311 fine rather than get out of the car and give a warning.  That’ll teach them.

Nice work boys!  Great community spirit!

Heather Ferguson, Ewingsdale

 


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  1. Yep, the police hard at work. That does as much good as using sniffer dogs to detect end users of cannabis.

    I’m not sure who is running the police, but they seem to be doing some weird things.

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