LABOR says it will provide funding for 12 additional officers in the Chifley Police District if it wins government at this month's state election.
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The party's candidate for Bathurst, Beau Riley, was joined by Shadow Minister for Police Guy Zangari at Blayney Police Station on Wednesday to make the announcement.
The Chifley Police District includes stations at Bathurst, Lithgow, Blayney, Oberon and Cowra.
Mr Zangari said the number of officers was decided in consultation with the NSW Police Association.
"We'll be guided by the Police Association as a stakeholder and they have recommended 12 at this stage as the number required, but we'll be working with the commissioner and the local superintendent," he said.
Mr Zangari wasn't willing to commit to a return to former police boundaries.
"What I'm hearing, though, particularly in the Central Tablelands, is that there are gaping holes in commands," he said.
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Mr Riley said he had been told by residents during his door-knocking in Blayney that everyone knows when the police in the town knock off.
"When the police finish work at 11pm, the yahooing begins," he said.
Mr Riley said that the recent break and enter and indecent assault of an elderly woman in Blayney had triggered a response throughout the community.
"They want more police, and they want them patrolling at various times and that's their biggest concern here," he said.
Mr Zangari said currently police in Blayney are being spread from Bathurst to Cowra to respond to incidents.
"It's the tyranny of distance in these new districts so they end up doing more with less," he said.