Copies of a police action plan for Kings Cross have been circulated to interested parties by the Special Minister of State, John Della Bosca. It is basically waffle. Special police units such as the drug detection dog unit also assist. If this is so, the targeting is ineffective. The place is a continuous circus of screeching, drunkenness and heroin sales.
Terrible brawls break out over drug deals gone wrong.
For 15 minutes yesterday morning, a young woman was screaming at a man in the Piazza Diabolo, while he alternated between flinging the possessions from her handbag into the street and bashing her. Not a police officer anywhere. On the other hand, a few evenings ago police removed a sleeping man from a doorway by sooling a German shepherd onto him. The dog just barked into the drunk's ear until the groggy figure couldn't bear it any longer and staggered away. The real figure, according to students of Kings Cross policing, is a lot lower.