New South Wales police force’s effort to boost officer numbers and voices

7NEWS can take you inside the effort to beef up New South Wales’s police force, not just with more officers, but also with new voices.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's the emobility revolution. Joining traffic on Sydney streets, traveling
on pathways, crossing over public spaces, steering between pedestrians.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
They're incredibly dangerous. They're all riding them round like motorbikes
because they're so easy to modify.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
In New South Wales more than one point three million
e bikes and e scooters.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
We need to ensure that we are using them properly
and safely.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's legal to buy escooters, illegal to use them for
riders sixteen and over. The government plan allows e scooters
on shared paths, but with speed limits ranging between ten
to twenty kilometers an hour. E scooters traveling up to
twenty k's an hour on roads, but only those with
signposted limits fifty or below. Scooter speeds enforced by police very.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Difficult to enforce. You can't chase him. There's no number plate.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Some of the biggest concerns relate to bikes that may
have been modified bikes or scooters.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
For e bikes, the government deciding not to apply new speed.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Limits and the thing we'll do fifty sixty kilometers an
hour no peddling.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Currently, e bikes that comply with road rules are defined
as the same as a cycle that's being reviewed by
the state government part of a safety reassessment.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
The government plans to introduce legislation for e scooters later
this year. Chris mar seven years