The Country Majors Association (CWA) has called for minimum staffing agreements for non-24-hour police stations under recommendations submitted to a bi-partisan inquiry into community safety in the bush.

The CWA made 24 recommendations, announced 23 May, covering areas including domestic violence, youth crime, bail laws and police workforce issues.

They include increased funding to boost front line police numbers in the regions and a call for $10 million annually "to establish Specialist Workers for Children and Young People in every frontline domestic and family violence service in NSW."

The submission also recommended 21 Local Government Areas to host hearings, including Lachlan, Coonamble, Walgett, Cobar, Bourke and Parkes.

Parkes Shire mayor Neil Westcott says police lack the presence his shire needs.

"I really do agree with the report in that it's very much linked to having police on the beat and also making sure that the judicial system supports the police in regards to bail laws, Cr Westcott said.

"Coming off the back of the Molly Ticehurst death in Forbes, which is just down the road for us, the domestic violence situation has been brought to the fore and is getting plenty of publicity. It should have been getting it for a long time, so that's obviously a large part of the report as well.

"We're not at the extreme end of some of the shires really having to respond very quickly to some quite severe increase in blatant youth crime.

"But I'm not burying my head in the sand. It's out there, the figures suggest that they have to acknowledge it."

Parkes (picture) sits only about 30 minutes drive from Forbes. IMAGE: Wikimedia

28-year-old Ms Ticehurst was found dead inside her home on Young St in Forbes late-April.

Her former partner, Daniel Billings, was charged with her murder and contravening an apprehended violence order.

Parkes Shire recorded 137 reports of domestic violence-related assault in 2023, up 11.7 per cent over the five-year trend to December that year.

Gilgandra mayor Doug Batten, whose shire was not on the recommended hearing list, said he didn't make a submission to the inquiry.

"To put it bluntly, it's the flavour of the month," Cr Batten said.

"Next week it's immigration or boat people, they go around in circles.

"Any crime's no good, but our crime levels aren't similar to what some of the western towns are - like the Coonambles and Walgetts. They're the ones I'd expect to be making submissions."

CMA Chairman Jamie Chaffey said the inquiry, run by the Law and Safety Committee, is an opportunity for "generational change."

“Now that the NSW Government has agreed to hold a regional crime inquiry and submissions are rolling in, all eyes will be on the four Labor, one Greens, one National Party and one Independent member of parliament that make up the Law and Safety committee who must take their responsibilities seriously and not avoid this important opportunity to make meaningful generational change," Mr Chaffey said.

The Western Plains App contacted committee Chair, Labor Mount Druitt MP Edmond Atalla, for comment on the recommendations.

A spokesperson for Mr Atalla said it would be inappropriate for him to comment until he has received all submissions. 

While general submissions closed 31 May, the spokesperson said one submitter had been granted an extension to 14 June.