Bendigo Advertiser letters to the editor

August 30 2016 - 2:00am
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The proactive policing methods employed recently in the Hargreaves Mall win praise from two letter-writers.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The proactive policing methods employed recently in the Hargreaves Mall win praise from two letter-writers.

Proactive policing a win

The perennial problem of the anti-social behaviour of a proportion of our Bendigo youth who congregate in the Hargreaves Mall cannot be approached solely as a “law and order” issue, and so it is encouraging to read of Sergeant Matt Hunt’s proactive policing unit’s strategy of “spending time with them and talking to them and actually learning about them as people” (“Little wins chip away at CBD trouble”, Bendigo Advertiser, August 27).

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