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A Western Sydney Mayor has slammed the police blitz in her area to enforce Covid lockdown restrictions, instead advocating for more health workers. We need the health response rather than the police response, Liverpool Mayor Wendy Waller told the Today show on Monday morning.
The Mayor said people in her council were mostly complying with Covid restrictions and deploying the army in addition to higher police visibility would be overkill .
People pictured queueing in Chapel Street, Bankstown, during the first day of the police crackdown in south-west Sydney last Friday [People] are very concerned that we re being singled out, Ms Waller said. We know from previous lockdowns [that people complied].