Sturt Police Station

Does wearing a badge give you a right to be so rude? It was extremely hard with my hearing loss disability, and further anxiety due to mandatory masks, as I usually lip read. I had it figured out with live transcribe, body language, and tone of voice, female police officer was just plain rude. I came home feeling upset and really disappointed that I had gone through that. And this was simply for having witness signing done.

Letting tel. ring for over 50 mins now, no response on a Saturday early afternoon. First I have a long wait with ca. 3 mins total silence from the Sturt Police Station in response to my call, with no acknowledgement (as if to discourage waiting and make the caller hang up). Then comes a recorded voice, with no info in between, saying every 35 seconds "All representatives are currently attending to other calls. We will answer your call asap". Still waiting after 50 mins as I write this... Can only confirm negative reviews. This is even worse than Norwood Police Station, known in all suburbs around as lazy and unresponsive. The best most organized one is Holden Hill Police Station, always thumbs up!

Female police officer was extremely rude and abrupt when I came in to do a report about a motor vehicle accident that was in no way my fault. She automatically treated me like I was a criminal. If you don't know how to speak to members of the public you shouldn't be a police officer.

Excellent service, read some of the poorer google reviews before we went today, but this was not our experience at all today. The officer who assisted us this morning at Sturt Police Station was friendly, taking her time and care in reading through and understanding what we wanted in terms of signing documents. All this was sorted out in no time and with a friendly smile.

Was driving normally in left lane during roadworks in 40 zone. Police car exits the station and begins his journey on the right lane. Let’s a group of normal, everyday cars pass and then intentionally moves from right lane to left lane behind me. Police seem to do this quite often despite me driving a white, Alfa Romeo (Not a suspicious car). Police car started keeping an unsafe distance while I was driving 40 in a 40 zone. Continued to do so despite there being a clear right lane to pass me if he wanted to. Eventually we came to a traffic light intersection on an incline and had to stop. It seems that because I drive a manual transmission, he then decided to move unnecessarily close behind me so that if I roll back I cause an accident. After we moved off (no roll back) he decides to continue tailgating me in the left lane, eventually we merge to one lane and then decides to turn his car (gently) from left to right while laughing with his fellow police officer in the passenger seat. Clearly tried to intimidate me to drive at an excess speed and hand me an infringement. Pretty poor behaviour from the SAPOL in my opinion. I’m not happy that these two police officers, (female passenger in her 30s & male driver in his 50s) are driving with this attitude. It’s unacceptable. At least some police officers are much more respectful and courteous than these two that I had to deal with. Would expect much more professional behaviour in Australia but I guess we have some police officers with an attitude problem here as well.