Ms Paula Hilman:

The Commissioner mentioned that some of these are in the commission of offences like theft. That is obviously not antisocial behaviour but an offence. Some of them are used to facilitate other offences and there would have been specific operations around that. The other change is that we are hearing of businesses potentially waiting to come to market so these can be hired like bikes. That will be the issue. You see people using them responsibly and wearing fluorescent jackets and helmets, although helmets are not compulsory under the new legislation. In other jurisdictions, they cannot be hired out overnight so people coming out of licensed premises cannot hire them out. It will be interesting, and we will see what the impact will be of being able to hire them out. In other town centres the rented ones are slowed down. There is a GPS and once they enter a certain area, they have to go really slow. We have not had that hitherto.