Do you support Pennant Hills Police Station being open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
The respondent is invited to tick yes or no and to make other comments. I have been receiving replies to the survey for some time and they now total 518. All but 11 replies state that they want the police station to remain open 24 hours a day, seven days a week—which is a 98 per cent response rate in favour of keeping the station open. I have tried to put both sides of the argument. The secretary of the Pennant Hills business group and I have discussed with the commander and a shopkeeper closing the Pennant Hills station to allow police to patrol and some options were floated, which I have tried to reflect in the questionnaire. The option of closing the station to allow police to conduct patrols was fairly put, but the response from my constituents is strong. The President of the Pennant Hills Civic Trust, Ron Leslie, yesterday sent me a fax about this matter in which he said: The Trust is vehemently opposed to the closure at any time. In the sixth paragraph, he made the key point: Des
