“It was a waste of bloody time,” Mr Boucher said.

“I’m just calming down now.

“At least at the first meeting four years ago, people came away and there was a small spark at the end of the tunnel, a glimmer of hope, this time it was like being thrown on the scrap heap.

“Everything was put in the too-hard basket.

“They will walk away thinking if we ignore it, it will go away, but it is not going away.”

Mr Boucher said a police station was needed in the area which would ensure police officers are based in the central Shoalhaven 24/7.

“Many residents felt they were being blamed for the crime problems for not reporting incidents in their area,” he said.

“We’ve had a gutful. There are limits as to how far people can be pushed.

“To blame us for not reporting crime is bloody stupidity.

“The reason people aren’t reporting crime is because they are concerned about retaliation for making reports and for so long nothing has happened, so they have given up now.

“As people were saying at the meeting, you try to report crime to Huskisson police, you get transferred to Nowra, no one answers there and you end up at Warilla.

“How the hell are they supposed to get patrols or some action from Warilla down here? It’s crazy.

“I don’t lose my temper very often but on Monday might I was so bloody angry I was shaking.”

Mr Boucher said he expected voters to get their message across at the next election.

“I’m sure people will use their votes to send a message,” he said.

“I’m at a stage where if neither party doesn’t give us a statement in writing that they will provide a 24/7 police station immediately after the election, then for the first time since I’ve voted and I’m 66 now, I’m going to put in a donkey vote.

“I will write on the ballot paper on big black letters, no police station no vote and if enough people do the same and that causes a by-election so be it, maybe that’s what it takes to get the message to Macquarie Street.”

He said talk had also been made on the We Love Sanctuary Point page of a group forming to patrol local streets.

“They are not at a vigilante group, they say they are non-confrontational and will take photos and notes and contact police,” he said.

“But what if they come up against someone on ice or a dropkick, there is going to be a confrontation and someone will get hurt.

“And if anyone does get hurt the blame will fall on the politicians for not getting off their backsides and not doing their job.”

Ironically, while the meeting was being staged on Monday night, with the local police commander inside the St Georges Basin Country Club, someone was reportedly doing burnouts outside the building.