No officers permanently based at Angurugu police station, despite millions in federal funding

Residents of a remote Northern Territory community have questioned why millions of dollars were spent on a new police station when the nearest officers are still, sometimes, a 20-minute drive away.

The station was intended to herald a new era for safety in Angurugu, a community on the Groote Eylandt archipelago in the western Gulf of Carpentaria, when Federal and Northern Territory Government politicians opened it in November 2019.

But there are no officers permanently based at the facility, which had an…