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Source: Liberal Media
SA has more illegal drug producing laboratories than any other state in the country and violent armed robberies and assaults are on the rise.
David Ridgway, Shadow Police Minister said that illicit drug consumption and the illegal production of drugs increase violent crime; the use of illegal drugs and violent crime both have prospered and risen under the Rann Government.
“While the SA Liberals’ support laws that assist in cracking down on hydroponically grown cannabis it is damning that after eight years violent crime and drug related crime in SA is spiralling seemingly out of control,” Mr Ridgway said.
“This is despite Premier Rann’s 2002 pledge on law and order in which he said:
“One of Labor’s key election pledges was that we would be tougher on crime and tougher on law and order. South Australians want to feel safer in their homes and safer on our streets,’’
“I want South Australians to look at this Contract and take it as my Government’s pledge to be tough on crime and serious about treating the causes.”
“Yet, the 2008 Victims of Crime Report (ABS) paints a frightening violent picture of crime in SA, between 2002 and 2008:
Homicide and related offences increased by 22.6%
Armed Robbery has increased by 10.4 %
“And, the 2007/2008 Australian Crime Commission’s National Clandestine Laboratory Database, reveals that per capita SA has more illegal drug producing laboratories than any other state in the country - for every 23,000 SA there was one illegal drug lab detected, compared to one drug lab for every 60,000 people nationally.
Premier Rann must explain why SA is the drug lab capital of Australia.
“He has failed to fulfil on his 2002 Law and Order Contract he can’t be trusted to fulfil another contract - has failed the people of SA.”
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