General News
10 August, 2024
Advertised! Station spot will be filled
A PERMANENT police presence could return to Pyramid Hill within weeks. The station vacancy was advertised in the Police Gazette last week and interviews of applicatants are expected to be held early next month. Pyramid Hill has been without a police...
A PERMANENT police presence could return to Pyramid Hill within weeks.
The station vacancy was advertised in the Police Gazette last week and interviews of applicatants are expected to be held early next month.
Pyramid Hill has been without a police officer for more than 12 months, sparking community concern for the station’s future and local safety.
Residents said police resources were stretched while one-member stations at Pyramid Hill, Serpentine and Boort are covered from other local towns. “We may be a small town but we need our local police,” Kel Stewart said in March.
It will be the second northern Loddon station to again have a permanent presence after Serpentine’s officer returned from sick leave earlier this year.
Boort’s long-serving Senior Constable Ray Stoman remains on sick leave.
Officers from Inglewood have been temporarily assigned to Pyramid Hill while waiting almost six months for the vacancy to be advertised. Police numbers in the Loddon Shire have been increased this month with the appointment of two new members at Inglewood.