RATEPAYERS are being slugged almost $3000 a day for private security guards to patrol Belmore Park’s homeless enclave, where drug abuse is fuelling rocketing rates of crime and violence in the city’s heart.
In what is fast becoming Sydney’s greatest embarrassment, dozens of homeless people continue to live in squalid tents and makeshift shelters at the park in front of Central Station, with drugs and grog fuelling frequent outbreaks of violence between transient “residents” who openly use the bushes as toilets and abuse passers-by.