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Burglary numbers on a downturn By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz
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Local police charged with reducing the number of burglaries on non-residential properties around the district are confident that a recent downward trend will continue. Police announced yesterday that burglaries on non-residential properties around Canterbury had decreased by more than 15 per cent in three months leading up to the end of July from the three months prior. And for Mid South Canterbury Prevention Manager, Senior Sergeant Dylan Murray – that’s a pleasing result.
“We’ve got an operation running currently that has been building on top of what we have normally been doing,” he said. “The national standard is for residential burglaries to be attended 98 per cent of the time within 48 hours, but that has been one of our goals for all burglaries and we have been hitting that mark so that is a good sign.” Murray said the focus of Operation Confidence was not just on burglaries, and included other high volume crimes and thefts of items such as motor vehicles. “Through face-to-face, phone or email
contact we are getting some really quality prevention advice through to people,” he said. Businesses had been big improvers in making themselves more resistant to burglary, but the overall area held some surprises, Murray said. “With the size of the areas like in Mid South Canterbury all it takes is one burglar to commit a lot of burglaries and there will be a spike in stats,” he said. Operation Confidence is one that is ongoing, and Murray is confident it will continue to have positive effects. “I think it is going to have a big impact in the long run,” he said.
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