Riverina Police District receives six new officers to improve response times and target repeat offenders

Bob Noble said it was a matter of consulting with current members of the police force as well as the community to see where the new officers will be best placed around the region and what duties they should be deployed to.

"The commissioner has spoken a lot in the past on crime prevention and crime disruption so the plan is for a bulk of officers to go into positions where they can prevent crime before it occurs or get onto those people who have been committing multiple crimes to stop it going any further," he said.

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Superintendent Noble said it was a matter of keeping up the station's good work and reinforcing their presence among the community.

"What we've seen in the Riverina district over the past 18 months is a significant reduction in property crimes like break and enters, malicious damage, or car theft, and we are very pleased with that result which has been brought about from a more stringent focus on repeat property offenders," he said.

"The boost of these new officers may just give us the opportunity to staff following these leads more substantially going forward."

With concerns over the power six officers will have, Superintendent Noble said every extra set of hands helped.

"At the present time, six officers will need to be enough," he said.

"If we were granted 66 officers, the decision making would still be just as difficult with competing priorities.

"If the minister delivered more for the Riverina we would have taken them, but for now it is six more than we had so we are very happy to be taking them on."

NSW Police Association's Southern Region Officer Ben Buffett said the boost is likely just the start of improving the region's crime.

"The six officers were just a part of the first 12 month deployment, so there is possibly more to come," he said.

"You can never have too many, more police means a safer community and importantly better response times to jobs.

"When people pick up the phone and call, they're in need, they need a timely response and this is what they will now have a better chance of getting."

Mr Buffett said more boots on the ground was a good place to start, but future needs will be assessed in terms of staffing to other departments.

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