Boost horse flu guards' powers: Vic Oppn
The Victorian Opposition wants horse flu border control officers to have more power to stop and search vehicles.The Member for Northern Victoria, Wendy Lovell, says horse floats have crossed from New South Wales to Victoria about 200 times.
Eighteen of those cases are being investigated by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and one person is facing possible prosecution.
Ms Lovell says cars and trucks are being allowed over the border unchecked, risking the spread of horse flu into Victoria.
"The border control people should be given greater powers," she said.
"At the moment they have no powers to actually pull up a vehicle, all they do is ring the police and report a vehicle and the police have to intercept that vehicle."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
posted by Horse Deals at
12:02 pm
1 Comments:
the scerity gaurds are paid enough, half the time they look like their sitting there doing nothing. and don't really look enough to be able to handle, diffcult people, unless the police were called. i cross the borderat tocumwal, but i've been through the cobram/barooga bit and there's no one over there, and that was a while back. we can cross the rive with it being so low any way if you really wanted.
louise
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