Queensland LNP’s Dan Purdie, Currumbin MP Laura Gerber pledge $1m to stop Gold Coast hooning gangs
The LNP have pledged $1 million to stop hoons – and slammed the idea of giving them a designated spot on the Gold Coast.
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CALLS for a designated hooning spot on the Gold Coast have been slammed by the LNP Shadow Police Minister.
Shadow Minister Dan Purdie shot down the suggestion as he announced $1 million would be invested in anti-hooning technology under an LNP Government.
Mr Purdie met with Currumbin LNP MP Laura Gerber to make the announcement, which would see rubber eroding road treatments rolled out across the Coast.
The treatments would erode tires when a car performed burnouts or skids on the treated stretch of road.
“Communities across the Coast have had enough,” Mr Purdie said.
“There are places around southeast Queensland for people who want to (do burnouts) but the problem is here on the Gold Coast the thin blue line has never been thinner.
“Our police have been working with soft laws for two years.
“If you give (any criminal) an inch, they’ll take a mile, whether it’s hooning gangs, bikie gangs or juvenile offenders.”
Community groups and members of hooning gangs have both called for an allocated skid pad to be built by the State Government.
Ms Gerber said her electorate was being plagued by hoons like the group which calls itself the Mexican Hoon Cartel.
“Our community needs to feel safe, and at the moment they don’t,” she said.
“I’m a former Federal prosecutor, I prosecuted paedophiles, bikies, and drug importers and exporters, so I understand the community’s need for safety.”
She added both she and Mudgeeraba MP Ros Bates had been targeted by the Hoon Cartel gang in recent weeks.
The group posted multiple videos of masked members destroying signs and threatening Ms Bates across their social media accounts.
“It is concerning for my community, I’m here as a representative and I don’t deserve to be targeted,” Ms Gerber said.
“We’re not talking about kids, this is a gang. This is an organised gang that is targeting our streets.”
The LNP’s plan to take on hooning includes 100 new CCTV cameras and anti-hooning gang laws.
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