Tuesday, November 30, 2010

HOON HOTLINE - REPORT A HOON IN QUEENSLAND ON 13-HOON

Queenslanders  will soon be able to report car hoons through a special police hotline - this is great news  and forms part of plans to combat the thousands of revheads terrorising neighbourhoods across the state.

Police Minister Neil Roberts will  - on  December 13 -  reveal  the launch day for a new phone line - 13HOON - aimed at  providing a memorable contact point and reducing the burden on  the triple-0 emergency number.

Mr Roberts said people would need to  provide  details including the hoon's car registration, vehicle description and location of the hooning when they called.

"Queenslanders told us that they were fed up with hoons taking to our streets doing burn-outs, engaging in illegal drag racing and generally driving in an unsafe manner," Mr Roberts said.

Incidents with no immediate danger will be forwarded to a police operations centre to have units respond when available, but triple-0 should  still be called for urgent hoon cases.
Mr Roberts said the new hotline gave an easy-to-remember central contact point to report hoons.

"The Queensland Police Service emphasises that community members should not place themselves at
risk to report this antisocial behaviour," he said.