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The 3 July attack on two young men at the Noble Park station has highlighted the continuing violence on our rail network.
The young men were waiting for a train when three men attacked them at approximately 11pm.
“This is not an isolated case of the violence on the Dandenong line but a trend of violent behaviour occurring across Melbourne’s south eastern metropolitan public transport system,” said South Eastern Metropolitan MP Gordon Rich-Phillips.
“There is little doubt that this situation is a direct result of 11 years of Labor’s soft on crime attitude and Mr Brumby’s failure to maintain adequate police resources in Victoria.
To combat violence on our public transport system the Liberal National Coalition Government has committed to provide:
• 1600 new frontline police in its first term of government
• 940 Victoria Police Protective Services Officers to protect public transport users
• 100 Transit Police
“A Liberal National Coalition Government has promised as part of its election commitments that it will not tolerate crime on public transport and to combat it we will create a new force of Transit Police to protect public transport users.
“This will also include 940 Victoria Police Protective Services Officers posted at every metropolitan train station along the Dandenong line, all night, every night, from 6pm until the last train 7 days a week.
“This election commitment will ensure that local public transport users like the young men who were assaulted are not forced to fear riding public transport in the evening because they feel unsafe on our trains or busses.
“These types of violent night time attacks on our public transport system would not occur under a Liberal National Coalition Government,” Mr Rich-Phillips said.
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