A man was hit by a car and killed in Wyndham Vale after a police request for him to be helped by the state’s new sobering up program was refused.
A man is dead after being hit by a car soon after the state’s new sobering-up squad refused a police request to come and help him.
Instead, a team of state government employees tasked with responding to public drunkenness was called, but they refused to assist the man, and he was left on Black Forest Road in Wyndham Vale.on the condition of anonymity maintained the man was not known to be suicidal or violent but struggled with alcohol and that police members from the area were devastated by the death.
“Our full, unequivocal support is behind these two officers, who came to work to help and protect people and who were prevented from doing that because of the government’s recently reformed public intoxication laws,” Gatt said.
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