Deb Hann
Starting with good news – great work by store staff and a quick response by police resulted in the arrest of a male at the Warehouse last week at the Warehouse. He was also identified as the suspect for a previous theft at the same location and was trespassed and is now before the courts.
Continuing the theme, a male was recently disturbed by a homeowner at the scene of an early morning rural residential burglary. The vehicle driven by the male was found by police just a few hours later. Stolen property was recovered and a male arrested and charged. Just a couple of the great arrests we have had.
Deb Hann – Senior Constable
Other jobs attended by Cambridge police in the past week include burglary, vehicle theft, the offences of speaks threateningly, traffic crashes, family harm incidents, an assault, traffic offences and theft – including petrol drive offs.
Last Wednesday, Senior Constable Walker and I conducted a beat patrol targeting students riding through the main street after school. This matter has been raised a few times in this column and through school. Cyclists on the pavement continue to pose a risk in our central business district. While I understand there is sometimes flexibility granted with regard to students riding on the pavement in some suburban streets, in the CBD, this is just not possible. The area on both sides of the road between the clock tower and the Police station is a high pedestrian traffic area. People are walking in and out of our local shops and their movements can be unpredictable.
Please support us and the business community in telling students to dismount and walk their bikes through town or ask them to use the cycle lane.
Finally, a word about crash scenes. Recently I was working on a crash scene on Burns Street, Leamington. We had police cars with flashing lights and road cones blocking the intersection in the middle of which was a vehicle with significant frontal damage. Despite this, several drivers either tried to detour around the police cars – including driving up and over the grass verge – to continue through or tried to drive directly across the scene until stopped by an officer. If you are driving on a road and encounter police, fire or ambulance vehicles blocking your path, stop and follow instructions. This may include turning your vehicle around and driving around the block or following some other detour to reach your intended destination.
Interrupting emergency services work at the scene to deal with errant drivers, delays us in dealing with the victims involved, in clearing the road and may compromise evidence in the crash scene itself.
Deb Hann – Senior Constable at the Cambridge Farmers’ Market. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
