Police chief orders cops to end petty fines Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan wants a greater focus on crime hot spots instead of Perth's "leafy suburbs." POLICE chief Karl O'Callaghan will order officers to stop wasting time busting people for petty offences so they can focus on "real crime." The Police Commissioner told The Sunday Times yesterday he was fed up with officers particularly traffic cops picking up drivers with broken brake lights when they should be chasing drink-drivers and speeders. We're going to say to police officers, 'Don't bring me back infringements for tail lights. Bring me back evidence that you focused on the things that kill people'," Mr O'Callaghan said. The commissioner will rein in officers, giving strict orders on what crimes to target and what suburbs to focus on, saying traffic police had too much latitude. Mr O'Callaghan wants a greater focus on crime hot spots instead of Perth's "leafy suburbs." We get infringements for people who have one brake light not working or have their fog lights on. It's a real problem," Mr O'Callaghan. We have to make sure that more police officers focus on the things that matter to the community and not the things that matter to them. Where there's high rates of crime or juvenile offending, we're going to say go to those areas and patrol there all night long until we tell you to go somewhere else. Don't patrol down the leafy streets of some suburb where there's no crime. There's no point you being there unless you get called there specifically. Mr O'Callaghan said questions were raised about the Christmas road safety campaign when officers issued fines to boat owners who did not have red flags on their outboard motors in Lancelin. The fines were eventually withdrawn. I said, 'Why did they do that? The Christmas traffic campaign is about speed and inattention and drink-driving. What are they doing giving people infringements for red flags? " he said. Who made that decision? Of course, they did.