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Patrols new weapon to beat the crime wave

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Police Commissioner Andrew Coster’s announcement of the re-establishment of new Community Beat Teams to patrol our towns and cities is timely but may come at a cost to “normal” services police provide. 

For Coster to get the boots on the ground numbers for his Community Beat Teams means reassigning officers from other policing areas, like family harm, and possibly traffic, to take on t...


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