by Nigel Gladstone & Nick O’Malley – NSW Clubs and RSLs are building on-site retirement villages, day care centres and hotels using special exemptions from planning laws in a push to break their dependency on poker machine profits.
by Nick O’Malley – THE Northern Beaches Council is to vote on a controversial set of policies to restrict poker machines, including a measure that would allow it to ban the machines from property leased by council.
by Daniel Dasey – A MANLY councillor is calling for regular drug testing for all 12 members of the northern beaches council.
by Helen Withers – THE ordinary family home is about to become the new target for armed bandits. Former policeman and Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator Pat Daley predicts robbers will turn away from banks and small businesses due to increased security.
by Pat Daley – BREAK-and-enter offences account for approximately one-third of all reported crime. Goods worth hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen every year and only a small percentage is ever returned to its owner.
by Pat Daley – IT’S school holiday time again and parents must be aware of the dangers facing children in their neighbourhoods.
Working with Neighbourhood Watch I’ve seen a lot of security doors. And I think most of them are rubbish.
DISCIPLINE in State schools has deteriorated so much that students are spitting on police who come to lecture them on safety, according to Pat Daley, a former police sergeant and now security consultant.
