‘PUBLIC TOO TRUSTING’
Warning On Thefts (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 14. Some of the public were too trusting said the Auckland crime prevention officer (Detective-Sergeant P. M. Faulkner). The police knew of three instances recently where a woman with a baby was given access to staff changing rooms in city stores—and then stole from the lockers, he said. Each time she asked an assistant if she could feed and change the baby in the privacy of a staff room and this courtesy was readily granted. Then each time after she had left it was found she had stolen money, he said. There were also many thefts of washing left overnight on clotheslines. Thefts of money and personal effects from changing rooms at such places as swimming baths were averaging about £450 a month in Auckland. Mr Faulkner warned shopkeepers against a type of shoplifting recently noticed on the North Shore. The thieves worked in pairs. While one engaged a shop assistant in conversation and diverted his attention, the other stole items.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31009, 15 March 1966, Page 15
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172‘PUBLIC TOO TRUSTING’ Press, Volume CV, Issue 31009, 15 March 1966, Page 15
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