No officers permanently based at Angurugu police station, despite millions in federal funding
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DecDecember 2020 at 8:46pm
The station was intended to improve community safety when it opened more than a year ago.
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Residents of a remote Northern Territory community have questioned why millions of dollars were spent on a new police station when the nearest officers are still, sometimes, a 20-minute drive away.
Key points:
Instead, staff rotate through from a community 20 kilometres away
The East Arnhem Regional Council wants more police deployed to Angurugu
The station was intended to herald a new era for safety in Angurugu, a community on the Groote Eylandt archipelago in the western Gulf of Carpentaria, when Federal and Northern Territory Government politicians opened it in November 2019.