Queensland Hoon Hotline operational from December

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By Tim Beissmann | November 29th, 2010

The Queensland Police Service will launch a ‘hoon hotline’ next month in an attempt to give the public an easy way to report antisocial behavior on the roads.

Police Minister Neil Roberts confirmed the creation of the service – 13 HOON (134 666) – was the result an election commitment by the Bligh Government during the 2009 campaign.

“Queenslanders told us that they were fed up with hoons taking to our streets doing burn-outs, engaging in illegal drag racing and generally driving in an unsafe manner,” Mr Roberts said.

“The 13 HOON hotline gives the public an easy to remember central contact point to report hoons to police.”

Calls will be taken at the new $54 million non-urgent police contact centre in Zilmere, helping to take the strain off the Triple Zero (000) emergency network.

Mr Roberts said the information provided to the hoon hotline would be forwarded to the designated Police Operations Centre to have police units detailed to respond.

“Trained call takers will answer the call and record details including vehicle registration, vehicle characteristics and location of the illegal activity,” he said.

Mr Roberts emphasised that members of the public should not place themselves at risk to report an incident, and urged people to still use Triple Zero if the situation was in any way dangerous or life threatening.

Anti-hoon laws were first introduced in Queensland eight years ago and were expanded in July 2007.

Under the current ‘Type 2’ provisions, police can impound a vehicle for 48 hours for a first repeat offence, up to three months for a second repeat offence, and permanently for a third repeat offence.

More than 23,000 vehicles in Queensland have been impounded since the introduction of anti-hoon laws.

Peter

Cool – now we have an easy way to report the Police cars/bikes I see speeding past on their way to McDonalds!

Damian

We’re definitely going to have people abusing the system – e.g. vindictive girlfriends and bitter pensioners. It’ll be interesting to see how the Queensland Police, using evidence solely derived from “call-ins”, could prosecute an accused “hoon” beyond reasonable doubt.

JML

They can’t. That’s why it failed in Victoria.

Moe

If they bring this to NSW, my phones will be busy reporting the amount Police i see thrashing their SS and XR6 Turbos in my street which is a 50Km/h speed limit.

Moto 2

if people are doing the right thing then they have nothing to fear, I have a friend who had his 7 year old boy killed by a hoon. I have a 9 year old boy and we have cockheads in our street who are about to meet a blue light or !!!!!!
Police are not silly they can work out who are hoons and who are not.
Just had a 18 year old roll his can in a 50Kph street the other day and end up in some ones front lawn.
Was he hooning ?????

greenroom

Closely followed by the Australian Taxpayers Anti NBN Plan Hotline. Call: 13thelaborgovernments50billionNBNplanisasham

Sam 300TD

I dont get it…
ICejagans

I take it you’re not a fan of labor.

Devil’s Advocate

So thinking the NBN is a sham automatically makes someone not a fan of Labor? That is a very interesting way of looking at things. I didn’t know that it was compulsory to agree with everything your ‘favoured’ politcal party etc says/does…

It is all well and good having a hoon hotline, but the police have enough trouble keeping up with other calls due to low staffing levels etc so I doubt they would be able to pay the required attention this this scheme.

Qikturbo

Queensland Police can get off their fat posteriors from sitting in patrols cars aiming laser/radar guns and do REAL police work by having more car/street patrols,rather than having citizens act as quasi-police doing YOUR job.!!!
bot

Wow, talk about a very subjective topic. All of my mates (aged 30-33) have sports cars, so are we instantly labelled hoons now by the general public. The parents who can’t see over the steering wheel, drive in the right lane in 90+ zones, tailgaters, drive 40 in 60 zones, park illegally while picking kids up and don’t use indicators are the ones that need a 13-CAMRY line to get them off the street. Try crushing all 20 year old rust-bucket Ford Lasers / Excels etc who wouldn’t do too well in an acco. Just because my car has an exhaust and can beat you to 60 doesn’t mean I’m an hoon. All this labelling is BS!

Eric

You labeled yourself.

I think it great there aren’t enough police and cost of training and employing more, eats into the budget for other things we enjoy.

Eric

Eff

But a $54 million call centre with staff and training doesn’t?
SteveSV

I can see Eric is a Geography teacher that drives a Volvo

greenroom

i type in jest, i think the 1300hoon name is a bit weird, maybe just more police on the road would be enough.
Peter2

I’d be worried my wife might read the phone bill and think I was dialling 1300HOMO, not that there’s anything wrong with that…

http://Facebook Jerome Jackson

hahahahaha….. (not that there’s anything wrong with that)

Yonny

Still waiting for 1300 CARAVAN, where you can report the inconsiderate idiot going 40 km/h while towing a caravan, who blocks the road for ages seemingly unaware of the line of frustrated traffic building up behind them.

Hoons I can live with, they scream past you and are gone. Caravans used to pull over & let people past – not any more, it seems.

Once we have 1300 CARAVAN, stand by for 1300 SLOW CAMRY.

http://Facebook Jerome Jackson

Well said Yonny

http://Facebook Jerome Jackson

What a waste of time….
13 WTF

This would be entirely unnecessary if traffic police did some real work and used their common sense.
And who is to say someone won’t call with false information? How do the police prove it was you? More importantly, how does driver prove it wasn’t?
This hotline has no substance.

Jerome Jackson said it – “What a waste of time”.
matt

oh fantastic, what will queenslanders get taxed next. i nearly had my partners car taken off me. i lost my licence through sper fines, i got suspended for one month, after suspension i sorted everything out with sper with payment plans then after my month i continued driving again. about another month later i got pulled over again and was told my licence was still not current and after suspension i had to go back to queensland transport and PAY for ANOTHER licence. that was NOT the case a few years ago, and of course now i have to go to court again and probably loose my licence further, being pulled over a second time i was told they should be takin my car under the anti hooning laws (a 3.0 liter patrol LOL)… what a crock of crap!!!! sorry for this big unpunctuated rant, but i am so angry and apparently ipswich court does not offer legal aid to driving offences anymore… right when i need legal aid most. end rant.

Bill

You are prefect example of the ratbag brigade. You should have had the car taken. You should have been thrown in the slammer for a month.

Heaps of unpaid fines under the SPER system and then whinging about the trouble u had to go to in getting a licence back. I’d have never given u one back.

Had to even go into a payment plan to pay the fines. My heart bleeds for u. If u can afford the fuel u can pay the fines.

Then you top it off by having yet another whinge about legal aid. Give me a break!

Shak

Why bother setting up a $54 million centre that simply forwards calls to the Police. Just call them directly. It wont take any strain off the Emergency Number as the calls will get to the Cops anyway, albeit at a later time and date.
Blitzkrieg

Didn’t the gestapo have a hotline in Germany a while back?
Dob in a nieghbour who say bad things about our Adolf i think it was called.
Save It for the track

000 is for emergencies only. I don’t know if QLD already has a non-urgent line, such as PAL in nsw (131444), if they do, why create yet another 13 number? I would think that perhaps they will be attempting to create ‘intel’ to target the hoons. If not and they want to try and take action, I would think they would need to get statements off the informants to this line, and then proceed against people by way of charge.
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As for SPER or SDRO (in nsw), people don’t just suddenly become ‘clients’, it takes a while to get into a suspended licence type of situation, and quite a bit to be in a ‘pay off’ situation.
http://stella Troy

Ive got a bloody hoon in my street polce dont do anything wont even go & speak to him his gonna kill some poor child someday

Every day his driving like an idiot i report it to police but nothing gets do.

What a waste of my tax payers money.
Bill

The best way around this is not to act like a bloody hoon.
If it acts like a crow, sounds like a crow, travels like a crow and looks like a crow then there is the real probability that it is a crow.

If you don’t want to be in the hoon category of road ratbags stop behaving like one. And stop trying to point a finger at everybody else and whinging about your bloody rights all the time.

Some of the old timers and mums can be a nuisance at times but they’re usually doing their best.

Bloody hoons should be shot.
Patrick

you call the police and tehy tell you to go out there and risk your safety to get a photo, they wont come out and have a look. I have a regular midnight race track that happens tweice a month for about an hour. I called the police while it was occuring so they could here the tires in the back ground, and they said they wouldnt come out and i need to get photos risk my safety and then head to the police station when it is open and submit a complaint form with the photos and take time of work to do this. then when someone dies they use the statistic to justify revenue generation instead of preventing the death by responding to complaint calls properly. I got a nieghbor who speed through my neighborhood that is 60 he comes down the hill and hits 90 to 100 everyday, i got a four year old. I tried to get the police to do something and got no action, i tried to complain to the council got no action, i have an altercation with him about it, and several of my nieghbors have had altercations with him as well, still nothing. police wont do anything until one of our children get killed, then they will use the statistic to get more revenue, how does that replace our kiled child? shouldnt they be respoding to this before someone dies?
Bob

I bet every person here has done something illegal in wet conditions on the road your tyres spin classed as a burnout cuz I’m a p plater, the light change to yellow and you can’t make it through. So you brake harder than normal to stop before the line. Your tyres lock up from braking classed as dangerous driving cuz I’m a p plater I’ve been charged with so many offenses and they dint make sence. I’ve caught everyone an won. I’m in a old corolla so no abs or airbags or traction control no fancy crap like everyone else has. I am a excellent driver and u admit I do illegal stuff like burnouts and I’m sure most of you and the po po have to. You do it in the streets your bound to get court you do it out bush you can have way more fun with no problems
John

This is the biggest lies ever to come from these labor rats.We reported a blood sucking parasite trail bike making a racket and driving at break neck speed in our street in Cairns more than a week ago and nothing has been done about it.I would have to hurt him myself by throwing a rock in his face then maybe the lazy police will take notice.