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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.
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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.
Queensland
Mostly sunny in the far southwest, a slight to medium chance of showers and thunderstorms elsewhere, increasing to a medium to high chance in the southeast interior. Risk of severe thunderstorm about inland parts of the southeast west of Boonah.
Hot conditions in the southwest and southern interior, with highs of 43C in Birdsville and 35C in Rockhampton. Slightly cooler in Brisbane, with a top of 31C forecast.
Winds light to moderate to east to northwesterly generally, though moderate to fresh south to southeasterly winds about the southwest.
New South Wales and the ACT
Showers and a thunderstorm or two across the northeast and the northern inland. A shower or two elsewhere in the east.
A trough is generating storms, some severe, over eastern parts of Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland.
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