text: Shocking images have been released showing the 'horrific' conditions inside a Gold Coast caravan park with a long and checkered history of drug abuse, violence, and abject poverty. The Mudgeeraba Caravan Village is home to more than 100 people, and has been the site of a fatal house fire, stabbings, brawls, and continual violence. Queensland Police patrol the site daily due the extreme level of incidents, and ambulance officers will now only enter the caravan park, which lies just ten kilometres from the region's famous Glitter Strip, under police protection. The Mudgeeraba Caravan Village is home to more than 100 people, and has been the site of a fatal house fire, stabbings, brawls, and continual violence . Senior Sergeant Mark Anderson, from the Mudgeeraba Police Station, said that officers considered that caravan park 'safe' before midday, but that 'once residents start on the drugs or alcohol, the situation deteriorates'. 'We try and get children out of there as quickly as we can. It’s easier for us to deal with ­incidents if there are no children around,' he told The Gold Coast Bulletin. The conditions of the caravan park has been labelled 'horrific' by authorities, with some of the sites, which include an old bus, tarpaulins, and run-down caravans, are left without running water. The owner of the caravan park, Bob Purcell, said that the discounted rent of between $90 and $200 he offered to residents attracted a certain type of person. ‘If you have cheap rent you’re going to get some sort of problem with those sort of people,' he told A Current Affair. Senior Sergeant Mark Anderson, from the Mudgeeraba Police Station said that police try to remove children . Residents of the caravan park have told of the horrific levels of violence in the Village . ‘We’ll get up to mischief here on occasions,' he said. In 2008, a man died in a caravan fire, and in 2010, a male resident of the caravan park was charged with the stabbing of another man at the Village, reported The Courier Mail. In March last year three residents, allegedly armed with knives and baseball bats, were hospitalised after a violent brawl broke out involving 20 men, reported The Gold Coast Bulletin. Residents of the caravan park said that one of the biggest problems in the park stemmed from drugs and alcohol abuse. One residents said that much of the violence had to do with 'who's paid and who hasn't paid'. ‘There’s blues all the time, and there’s no security at all,' he said. Residents of the caravan park said that one of the biggest problems in the park stemmed from drugs and alcohol abuse . Police are called to the caravan park frequently, and called the conditions of the park 'horrific' The same man admitted he had padlocks on his gate and front door just to ward away potential conflicts. Christian volunteers from Transformations Ministries visit the caravan park regularly, and offer food supplies as well as counselling services to the residents. Program co-ordinator Mark Farrugia said that the volunteers tried to show unconditional love and that the ministry offered drug and rehabilitation service. ‘This place provides a next step from the street. It is providing roofs over people’s heads,' Mr Farrugia said. ‘Where you find a low socio-economic area you find the issues of drugs and alcohol are involved, and particularly where the drug ice is involved it escalates people’s erratic actions.
target: The 'horrific' Mudgeeraba Caravan Village is home to over 100 people .
  Queensland Police patrol the site daily due the extreme level of incidents .
  It has seen a fatal house fire, stabbings, brawls, and continual violence .
  Ambulance officers will only enter the park under police protection .
  ‘We’ll get up to mischief here on occasions,' owner Bob Purcell said .