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November 14th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
It’s a squabble over lies, damned lies, and statistics.
The Queensland government has accused former Liberal National Party (LNP) leader John-Paul Langbroek of celebrating his promotion to shadow minister for the Commonwealth Games with a misleading claim on police numbers.
Mr Langbroek promised on Monday to increase police numbers and clean up the streets of the Gold Coast ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
He claimed frontline officers have been slashed by 77 in 11 districts, including the Gold Coast, in the last year.
“These cuts will have massive impacts on frontline police,” the Surfers Paradise MP said.
“The Gold Coast, Coomera and Logan districts have been suffering in a very well-publicised way over the last few months from a lack of frontline policing.
“When we had a significant increase for a month during Operation Seymour of 50 extra police it made a tangible difference to frontline policing.”
Mr Langbroek said 24 frontline police have been cut from the ranks on the Gold Coast, with a reduction from 707 in October 2010 to 683 in October 2011.
“Those police have obviously been diverted to somewhere like Coomera where they still have a massive police-to-population ration of one officer to over a thousand people,” he said.
He said the force in Logan has reduced by 12 and South Brisbane by 20.
Police Minister Neil Roberts insists the claim is “utterly incorrect”.
“Mr Langbroek bases his claim on a comparison of actual police numbers in October 2010 and 2011,” he said.
“Actual police numbers at any point in time will fluctuate and differ from approved numbers for a range of reasons including resignations, promotions and other staff movements.”
Mr Roberts argued a more accurate picture was given by the approved strength, the number of positions allocated by the Police Commissioner to each district.
“In 10 of the 11 districts Mr Langbroek has identified, the number of approved positions has increased, while one has remained the same.”
He said the approved strength of the Gold Coast had increased by three, Logan by one and South Brisbane by five.
However Mr Langbroek insists the only figures that matter are actual numbers of frontline police on the ground.
The Gold Coast has had a troubling year for crime, with incidents including the shooting death of police officer Damian Leeding in May.
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