POLICE will monitor crime rates in Bonbeach and surrounding areas over the next few weeks to gauge the effect of a substantial drugs’ haul. This comes after nine people were arrested Wednesday – including two men and a woman in a car parked at Oliver’s Hill, Frankston – and others in Seaford and Frankston. The arrests come after a coordinated four-month police operation targeting the sale and distribution of methyl-amphetamines in the Bonbeach and Frankston areas. After the hill-top arrests – in which plain clothes detectives in an unmarked courier van slid in beside a parked car with the three…
Author: Stephen Taylor
A CHELSEA policeman and a Frankston paramedic are being recommended for bravery awards after rescuing a woman from drowning off Chelsea beach, Thursday 9pm. The woman, of Chelsea, was seen by a passer-by near Maury Rd wading out in rough and dangerous waters fully clothed. She was distressed after a personal issue. The witness tried in vain to reach the woman but she swam away; he saw her head go under and lost sight of her. He then waded back to shore and called Triple zero. Arriving minutes later, Chelsea police used torches to sweep along the beach searching for…
WATCHING apprehensively from a distance, Australian National Aviation Museum secretary Ewan McArthur was as proud and anxious as a new dad on Monday as his six tonne “baby” made its way slowly home from Tullamarine. But, all went well on the 40km journey, despite an incident with one of the transport trailer’s wheels, and the Boeing 737 fuselage, saved from the scrap heap, reached Moorabbin Airport in 85 minutes. “Planes are aerodynamically designed to move very freely through the air,” Mr McArthur said. “We had to time our run to beat the school zones, but all went well.” The former…
THE relevance of Frankston police’s Operation Walker was highlighted early on Friday morning when a pedestrian was struck by a four-wheel-drive ute while crossing Frankston-Flinders Rd, opposite the football ovals and up the hill from Sages Rd, near Baxter. Paramedics reportedly restarted the 37-year-old man’s heart after he went into cardiac arrest, and made him ready for air transfer to The Alfred hospital. He was in a critical condition on Friday. The driver of the car is assisting police with their inquiries. Anyone who witnessed the incident is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit…
POLICE, security companies, retailers, major shopping chains and municipalities joined forces last week to plan how to better combat crime in Frankston and on the Mornington Peninsula. The Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Crime Prevention Alliance – the first of its kind in Victoria and running since February – aims to find ways to cut anti-social and criminal behaviour around public places and shopping centres. This will be done by “sharing good practice and crime prevention strategies”, according to its initiator, Senior Sergeant Dean Clinton, of Frankston’s Proactive Programs Unit. The alliance’s 16 members met at Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Queen St…