Waiouru police file

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 441, 23 June 1992, Page 4

Waiouru police file

BY CONSTABLE CHRIS SCALES A car pile-up on the Desert Road last week initially occurred as a result of a car and a truck colliding. The woman driver of the vehicle received moderate injuries. The resulting pile up was a combination of drivers ignoring accident signs and emergency vehicles' flashing lights and speed. About 10 vehicles were involved and amazingly there were no further injuries, which could have fumed the scene into one disaster area. If you do come across an accident scene, you should slow down to about 20km/h. • Burglaries, unfortunately, are one of the more prevalent offences reported to the Police and occur in every community and Waiouru is no exception. Waiouru regards itself as a unique type of community, where everyone knows everybody, and until recently, strangers coming and going in the housing areas, were rare. This tends to lull a community such as ours, into a false sense of security, where we didn't bother to lock our doors, secure windows or vehicles. More and more people are coming into the housing areas to the banks, and to shops in the community centre. Insecurity can be a problem, and the crims know this, Let's start being more security conscious. • Still on burglaries, the fridge at the rugby clubrooms was broken into and approximately $3,000 worth of alcohol was stolen late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning. The

quantity of alcohol stolen suggests a ute or truck was used. I believe that it was an outside job and was done by people who know that large quantities of alcohol were stored there. Any information would be appreciated to either the Military Police, who are handling the investigation, or ourselves. • As I mcntioned in my last column, information from the public is vital in helping us solve many offences. You are our eyes and ears and we cannot do our job effectively without your support. As a result of information received from the community we were able to identify an offender for the wilful damage that occurred to the petrol bowsers at the BP service station a couple of weeks ago. Keep up the good work. This is what policing your community is all about. • Arrests of the last week have included a 24year old woman facing several fraud offences and a 17-year old youth arrested for obstruction under the Misuse of Drugs Act. Both will appear in the Taihape District Court next month. • The odd drinkdriving offender continues to be picked up each week. Be warned, that we may conduct a little drink driving blitz soon. Continue using the shuttles and if you are a local that gets caught, you have no excuse. • Keep the information coming in about what's happening in the area, or what should not be happening and have a safe week.