Aus News 18: A Geelong grandmother waited two hours for police while her home was attacked

A 82-year-old grandmother was left in frighten for almost two hours when her windows were being smashed last Saturday. Her granddaughter, Caroline claimed that her grandmum had called the police right after she heard the clashed of a stone on her windows from the lounge. However, a second hit happened after 15 minutes and she called the police again and begged them to come immediately but they did not turn up for more than one and a half hours. Caroline kept on saying that her grandmum gave her a call after that sobbing for help. She said that her grandmum was afraid that her house would be intruded. She rushed to her grandmum's place and waited for the police. When the police eventually came to their assistance, they apologized with the reason being there was only one car available for the night. The police sergeant explained that it was a norm for the police station there to operate with only one divisional van and a sergeant on a Saturday night, and the demand for services were pretty high.

Comment:
I am quite appalled and feel sympathy for the old victim. The police should not have responded this way to an old folk, what if her house was really being intruded? The reason given by the police should be seriously taken into consideration. Perhaps, and indeed some changes have to be made to the so-called typical way of their operation. For instance, increase the number of patrolling cars and available police staff.