Stuff referred the matter to the Ombudsman and more than 18 months later, it ruled police should hand over the data. The numbers revealed that across five motels, which Stuff agreed not to name, there were just 46 call-outs over the whole of 2016. The written ruling also revealed police sought to keep the figures private as “the data paints a very unattractive picture” for the motels involved. Kettling the homeless into Motels with none of the real service wrap arounds was of course always going to fail. If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media
