Watch scheme limits crime
NZPA-AAP Sydney Sydney’s suburban crime rates have dropped substantially, thanks partly to the Neighbourhood Watch police-com-munity effort to combat burglary. . Figures given by the police show that burglary offences, which peaked at 70,000 in 1984, had gone down 7000 since the launching of the neighbour crime watch scheme 12 months ago. The New South Wales co-ordinator of the scheme, Sergeant Pat Daley, told a residents’ meeting at Redfern that the police believed they could cut burglaries even further through Neighbourhood Watch. He told about 200 people at the community meeting in the inner-city suburb that the police had now realised they could no longer fight crime on their own. Residents’ assistance was needed. Redfern is the fifth suburb to join the scheme, which now involves more than 260,000 homes in city suburbs. It is believed that talks are under way to double the scheme’s $250,000 budget this year.
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Press, 7 February 1986, Page 26
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152Watch scheme limits crime Press, 7 February 1986, Page 26
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