TENTERFIELD police conducted the first of a number of educational seminars on Wednesday last week, with a vision to eliminating a large proportion of opportunity spurred crime in the area.
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Senior Constable Ash Ray, who helped conduct the seminar in the Tenterfield shopping centre last week, said a considerable amount of crimes committed in the local area are the result of opportunity.
He said in the past month, the community has seen two vehicles stolen in separate incidents, both of which had keys left in the ignition.
"If the community could band together to reduce the opportunity for crimes to occur, it could be possibly to considerably decrease local crime rates," Snr Constable Ray said.
Tenterfield sergeant Mick Eaton echoed the vision and said any opportunity to work with the community was a success.
He said the key to lowering local crime rates was in educating community members to be vigilant and to encourage locals to work together to proactively address crime.
The seminar follows the state wide Operation Drink Driving 2, in which almost 220,000 NSW drivers were subjected to roadside breath tests from Thursday, November 6 to Saturday, November 8.
Sgt. Eaton said over 200 breath tests were performed in the local area by general duty officers as part of the operation, with no arrests made.
He said it was a commendable result for the community’s responsible drivers.
State-wide 131 charges for drink driving were recorded with almost 2000 speeding infringements.
Further crime prevention seminars will be conducted locally throughout the month, with dates scheduled for Wednesday, November 19 and 26.