A Geelong grandmother waited two hours for police
This is why I hate our gun laws and the anties and the government which pushed to have them introduced in Australia. A two hour wait for an 82 year old grandmother for police to come to her aid????????????????? These thughs could easly have entered her home, killed this woman, had a feed and partied on for an hour and left undisturbed before police arrived?

Stories like this break's my heart. A government dissarms the people, cons them by saying they will be looked after by police, then cuts back the police force because of budget constraints and the people, especially the elderly are hung out to dry. This is pathetic,

"Police Sergeant Phil Wilson said it was normal practice for Corio police station to operate with one divisional van and a sergeant on a Sa****ay night. It was a typical Sa****ay night, there was a fairly high demand for services," he said."
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A Geelong grandmother waited two hours for police while her home was attacked
By Jessica Craven From: No Source August 10, 2010 1:05PM
Caroline Den Drijver with her grandmother Nancy Van Roon with the smashed window at her home in Corio / Tony Kerrigan Source: HWT Image Library

A VICTORIAN grandmother who lay terrified in her bed as youths smashed her windows had to wait almost two hours for police to come to her aid on Sa****ay night.

Caroline Den Drijver said her 82-year-old grandmother Nancy Van Roon woke to the sound of her lounge room window being smashed by a rock about 1am, reported the Geelong Advertiser.

"She rang police straightaway and she thought she would get back into bed while she waited for police," she said.

"Then 15 minutes later, a pot plant came flying through her bedroom window."

Ms Den Drijver said her grandmother rang police a second time and pleaded for them to come but they did not turn up for more than an hour and a half.

"I got a phone call and she was sobbing, saying 'I don't know if they're coming into the house or not'," she said.

Ms Den Drijver rushed to her grandmother's home to wait with her for police.

"When they finally turned up, they apologised and said they only had one car for the night," she said.

At least five other homes nearby were also damaged in the vandalism attack.

"When an 82-year-old woman has to wait hours for police while people smash windows in her home, what does that say about us as a society?" said Ms Den Drijver.

Police Sergeant Phil Wilson said it was normal practice for Corio police station to operate with one divisional van and a sergeant on a Sa****ay night.

"It was a typical Sa****ay night, there was a fairly high demand for services," he said.

"She did report the damage at the police station and the report was taken over the phone. The van was out there patrolling the streets but they did drop in later in the night, it was pretty much a welfare-type thing to see how she was travelling."

Read more at the Geelong Advertiser.