LAKE Macquarie police hope to allay public concerns about safety on the Fernleigh Track following reports of “a creep on a pushbike” scaring and intimidating women on the shared path.
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Chief inspector David Matthews, from Lake Macquarie Local Area Command, recommended track users run, walk or ride with a friend if they were feeling nervous about using the popular path. But he said they had not received any reports of crimes on the track in the past 12 months.
“We have had a missing bush walker, and a couple of cats up trees,” chief inspector Matthews said.
“But we have had no reported crime at all on the track.”
He stressed the importance of reporting crimes. He said they were unlikely to send police to patrol the Fernleigh Track unless crimes were reported.
“If it’s not reported, we don’t know about it, and if we don’t know about it, we can’t task out police because we task our police to where the crime is,” he said.
