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Op en af.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDie misdaad ry wipplank hier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u00f3 s\u00ea sers. Johnatan Filander, die woordvoerder van Darling-polisie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diefstal, roof, aanrandings en die kwaadwillige beskadiging van eiendom is tans prominent in di\u00e9 gebied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filander het aan Weslander<\/span> verduidelik dat die misdaadstatistieke in di\u00e9 dorp hemelsbreed van week tot week verskil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEen week is dit stil en die volgende week is daar meer misdaad,\u201d het hy verduidelik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEk glo dat werkloosheid \u2019n bydraende faktor is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volgens Filander is daar \u2019n hele paar gewoontemisdadigers wat gereeld kat-en-muis-speletjies met die polisie speel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Een van die dorp se ander probleme is die aankoop van gesteelde goedere, wat \u2019n mark vir gesteelde goedere skep en tot diefstal en inbrake lei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filander s\u00ea die polisie kry goeie samewerking van plaaslike skrootwerwe wat inligting verskaf oor verdagte artikels wat mense aan hierdie instansies probeer verkoop. Hierdie inligting het onlangs tot \u2019n paar inhegtenisnemings gelei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tog wil Filander net weer alle skrootwerwe en handelaars van tweedehandse goedere waarsku om nie gesteelde goedere aan te koop nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnwettige skrootwerwe, wat gesteelde goedere aankoop, gaan swaar gestraf word.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die polisie vra ook dat die gemeenskap hulle nie laat mislei deur opportunistiese misdadigers wat sosiale media gebruik om mense te bedrieg en te besteel nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGeen geld moet betaal word vir iets wat jy nog nie het nie,\u201d het hy ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy pleit ook by inwoners om saans dubbel seker te maak dat hul vensters en deure behoorlik gesluit is en hul alarmstelsels geaktiveer is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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