New Glenelg Declared Public Precinct

Commencing today, 3 January 2025 to Monday 7 April 2025, the Glenelg Declared Public Precinct (DPP) will operate for a period of 12 hours from 3pm to 3am every Friday, Saturday and Sunday (into Monday).

Following extensive consultation, including with local traders and The City of Holdfast Bay, Attorney-General, the Honourable Kyam Maher MLC, approved the South Australia Police (SAPOL) Glenelg Declared Public Precinct application, within the following boundaries:

• Southern boundary of the Stamford Grand Hotel west to the low tide shoreline of the Gulf St. Vincent.
• Low tide shoreline of the Gulf St. Vincent to the most northern point at low tide of the breakwater.
• The most northern point at low tide of the breakwater, to the southwest corner of the Holdfast Shores Marina (inclusive of Holdfast Promenade Plaza), the boundary of the southern end of the marina extending east to Anzac Highway (northern boundary) then extending east on Anzac Highway (northern boundary) to eastern boundary of Brighton Road.
• Eastern boundary of Brighton Road to the northern boundary of Dunbar Terrace, then east to the pedestrian crossing directly east of Tram Stop 15, across to the southern boundary of Maxwell Terrace and then west in a straight line to the eastern boundary of Brighton Road, then to the southern boundary of High Street.
• Southern boundary of High Street to the western boundary of Moseley Street, then to the southern boundary of College Street to the western boundary of St Johns Row, to the southern boundary of the Stamford Grand Hotel.

Police data shows during the 2023/24 summer period, behavioural offences against people and property spiked in the Glenelg entertainment precinct between Friday and Sunday.

Acting Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Operations John De Candia said the declaration would provide police additional authorities to further protect public safety within the defined entertainment area.

“The DPP will support Operation Jericho and Western District police in ensuring the safety of local residents and people visiting the Glenelg entertainment precinct during the warmer months,” he said.

“Glenelg sees a substantially larger patronage from December to April and this requires a dedicated policing response.

“Operation Jericho, a Western District Operation, focuses on behavioural offending around licenced premises in Glenelg and along the foreshore and commenced at the end of October 2024.

“We want everyone to enjoy their time in Glenelg and this DPP provides police with another tool to protect the community.”

A Declared Public Precinct enables the following powers provided by Section 66 of the Act to be exercised by police:

• Conduct a metal detector search of a person and any property in their possession within a declared public precinct for the presence of weapons.
• Carry out general drug detection in relation to any person present within a declared public precinct.
• Order a person or group posing a risk to public order and safety to leave the declared public precinct
• Ban a person who commits an offence of a kind that may pose a risk to public order and safety, or behaves in an offensive or disorderly manner, within a declared public precinct.
• Remove children from the declared public precinct who are in danger of physical harm or abuse, behaving in an offensive or disorderly manner, or otherwise committing or about to commit an offence.

The new DPP also supports a recent ‘Dry Zone’ declaration for the Glenelg entertainment district, which came into effect on 31 October 2024.

The Glenelg DPP will be reviewed following a four-month trial period from Friday 3 January 2025 to Monday 7 April 2025.

The approved boundaries for Glenelg’s Declared Public Precinct, which will operate for a period of 12 hours from 3pm to 3am every Friday, Saturday and Sunday (into Monday).

Acting Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Operations John De Candia addressing the media at Glenelg this morning, Friday 3 January.