The faded blue sign may be gone and the building may look more lively than it has for some years, but there will be no negative impacts after the withdrawal of the NSW Police “shop-front” at Crescent Head, according to Mid North Coast Local Area Command Superintendent Paul Fehon.
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Supt Fehon said the Crescent Head office was never an established police station and was originally set up as a “shop-front” for police in the mid-1990s through a lease process.
He said the office hadn’t been staffed for “some years” with Crescent Head instead serviced by the Kempsey police station hub.
It'll have no negative impact on police activities there (at Crescent Head)
- Mid North Coast LAC Superintendent Paul Fehon
“I don’t see it as a negative, we will still be maintaining a presence there and it won't be a single officer, it’ll be multiple officers from our Kempsey Station,” Supt Fehon told the Argus.
“It’ll have no negative impacts on police activities there.”
Supt Fehon said that the concept of a single officer station wasn’t suitable at Crescent Head, with police protocols requiring there to be at least two police when responding to certain calls, while security at the office would have also been a concern.
“For the community out there, we still regularly patrol there.”
Supt Fehon said there’d be no change to police activity in the town.
“It’s not about withdrawing services from Crescent, we haven’t been active at that building for some years.
“Our officers, our vehicles and our training are tasked out there, and we monitor crime in Crescent Head as we do across all of the Macleay.”