Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last Friday in my electorate I visited Belmont. The reason that visit was to formally announce the funding of $100,000 of security improvements to the perimeter of the Belmont Forum and village shopping centre complex. In attendance were the Minister for Justice, the Hon. Michael Keenan; Glenys Godfrey, the hardworking local MLA for Belmont; the Mayor, Phil Marks, and the CEO, Stuart Cole, of the City Belmont; Mario Fisicchia, of the Sapore Espresso Bar, where there had been an attempted break-in earlier that week; and John Gillespie, also known as Jock, the CEO of the PCYC.

CCTV has been successful in Belmont, and the Liberal Party has a long record of commitment to crime prevention in the area. The rollout of CCTV in Kewdale and Rivervale was spurred on by a commitment by the Howard government back in 2007 and has been considered a success. The City of Belmont supported this commitment because of the stats suggesting that CCTV actually works. In Belmont between January and August 2013 some 48 incidents involving closed circuit television were given to the police, with 20 positive results.

The coalition are delivering on their election commitments, unlike when it took nearly three years from back in 2007 for the Labor government to deliver on their promise for the Medicare office in the city of Belmont. With a lot of pressure we managed to get them to open it five times!