Former Ceduna mayor Perry Will says the police in the towns affected by the cashless debit card have the “hardest job on this earth” in dealing with civilian crime.
“We have, I think, 40-something agencies in town, and there’s more than half of them are directly related to dealing with this, and they deal with it as best they can,” Mr Will told Sky News host Chris Kenny.
“The police are the front line with it, and, fair dinkum, I wouldn’t want to be a policeman in Ceduna or any of these other towns that have these same problems – they’ve got the hardest job on this earth.”
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