The N.S.W. State Government controls the Police Budget and "allocates" (????) resources to suit the supposed, in their minds, priorities as per the Crime Rate of each region.
Which in my opinion is sheer BULLSHIT btw.
Our LOCAL Policing region covers from the NSW-Sth. Australian Border east to the Darling River and from the Queensland Border in the north to the NSW - Victorian Border in the south and EVERYTHING in between.
Most townships along the Darling River and in that area usually have ONLY ONE or 2 Police Officers each, Broken Hill is ALLOWED a maximum of 16 Patrol Officers, 6 Detectives and 1 Superintendent for a
LOCAL population of 19,000 people PLUS they also have to cover the area from B.Hill to Wilcannia, across to the Sth. Australian Border the south to the Victorian - NSW Border as well using Motor vehicles ONLY, NO Police Helicopters or other Aircraft.
If you look at a map of N.S.W., find the course of the Darling River, then check the area between the river and the borders you WILL see just how big an area they are EXPECT to cover in comparison, for example, to Metropolitan Sydney or other Coastal NSW cities.

@Triphid Thanks, I'll do that.

@Triphid Holy crap, there are some huge distances!!!

@Lilac-JadeCanada And you ain't whistling Dixie either.
The NEAREST decent sized town/city to B.Hill is Mildura, Victoria approx. a 2-3 hours trip by car away, the smallest riverside town is Menindee some 45 -60 minutes away by car, the community closest to B.Hill is Silverton about 20-30 minutes away with Cockburn, on the NSW-S.A. border being 50 kilometres away.
In winter, when I go out to get firewood, it IS a 100 kilometre round-trip.
The whole firewood trip, including cutting and loading takes from 9.00 am to around 3.00pm including travelling time.
There ARE people out in this world that, imo, have no true concept of exactly how vast and virtually empty the Australian Outback really is.

@Triphid Well I kind of do living where I am. We're not as empty here in my province, but we're 90 minutes away from the nearest town, & 3 hours away from a larger city. We're forestry, & ranchland here with lots of remote lakes, rivers, that are fly in only.

British Columbia compared to New Zealand

My small city is Williams Lake Prince George is 3 hours away, & Kamloops is 4 hours away. Quesnel is 90 minutes away, but it's small too, & 100 Mile House is a village.

@Lilac-JadeCanada Btw, made THE phone call last evening, no probs, the required 'equipment' is being packed and shipped out later today.
FREE of all Charges as well.
I bet the boys and girls at the local Cop Shop will get a BIG surprise when it arrives most likely on Monday or Tuesday.

@Triphid That's great. It would be interesting to see how they react.

@Lilac-JadeCanada I'd like to see that as well, especially since they will be getting a few 'extras' that they didn't ask for or think of.

@Triphid Yeah, & I hope they appreciate it all.

@Lilac-JadeCanada I'm certain they will but I'm also sure that local Drug Dealers will NOT be so appreciative.

@Triphid Hahaha....life is tough....