SOS – Save Our Streets Public Petition:  How you can help to win our campaign for more resources 

The Police Association is entering a critical phase of our campaign for more police resources. You can help to create the largest ever public petition submitted to the Victorian State Parliament (70,000) and send an historic and powerful message to all politicians - We want them to act to boost police numbers on our streets!  

The petition is the lynchpin of our SOS - Save Our Streets campaign to win more resources and make our communities safer. It gives the public a chance to support and become directly involved in our campaign. 

You, the membership, tell us daily that police resources is the number one issue affecting you. It is why your Association continues to work hard to keep community safety and lack of police resources at the forefront of public debate. 

Our research and opinion surveys tell us that community safety is one of the leading issues on the public agenda for most Victorians. Our task is to funnel this sentiment into a big wake-up call for all our politicians. 

Your Executive members and workplace Delegates are leading the way, having committed to doing their bit to gather signatures to deliver an historic political message to Spring Street. The broader membership can follow their lead and use the many opportunities presented to you on a daily basis to gather as many signatures from the public as possible.  

The petition provides a focus for us to educate the public about why police resourcing is so important, how shortages are affecting our prime job of keeping communities safe, and how the resourcing crisis is affecting their local communities. 

The Association has been buoyed by the support we’ve received from many sections of the community on this issue to date. It is now time to galvanise and demonstrate that support and slam it on the desk of every Member of Parliament in this state.  

To get involved in this petition, talk to your local delegate or visit www.tpav.org.au (click on petition link on home page), where you can download and print petition sheets and obtain further instructions about the petition.

Greg Davies