Jason Wood (La Trobe, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In my electorate of La Trobe, people are sick and tired of being a victim or the prospect of being the next victim. Just outside the electorate, we had an awful and disgusting incident recently, where Senior Constable Daniel Yeoman was at home with his wife and children, and young offenders broke into his house. His wife actually tried to stop them getting in, even trying to give them the car keys so they would just leave. Instead, one of the offenders decided to stab the senior constable in the face with an object. I know Daniel's father, Dave Yeoman.

This is the state it has got to. It is very, very disturbing. Each week in Victoria at least two police cars are rammed by young offenders. In my day in the police force, it was rare to ever see this happen. An article in The Age, written by Craig Butt and Cameron Houston, dated 14 November this year, states that aggravated burglaries across the state are 6.5 per cent of all burglaries, but a truly disturbing statistic is that in Berwick, in my electorate, one in five burglaries is a burglary where the victims are in some way assaulted. It is an absolute crying shame that the Daniel Andrews government has let it get to this stage.