4 January 2011

Gungahlin IGAs rolled

4 January 2011 | By johnboy

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to two attempted burglaries at the Ngunnawal and Nicholls IGA supermarkets overnight.

Around 11.50pm yesterday (Monday, January 3), police received a report of several loud bangs and an alarm being heard at the Ngunnawal IGA. Upon arrival, police located damage to the rear loading bay where unknown offenders had attempted to gain entry to the supermarket.

Police spoke with witnesses at the location who reported they saw a male and female leaving the area in a dark coloured sedan.

A short time later, police were on mobile patrol when they observed damage to the Nicholls IGA on Kelleway Avenue. It appears unknown offenders had attempted to gain entry to the supermarket using a forklift parked near the rear roller door. The offenders knocked down a brick retaining wall before leaving, without gaining entry to the supermarket.

A witness reported to police seeing three persons wearing hooded jumpers leaving the area in a car.

Police are urging anyone who witnessed either attempted burglaries at the IGA supermarkets, or saw a suspicious vehicle in the Gungahlin area early this morning, to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers website on www.act.crimestoppers.com.au. Information may be provided anonymously.

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jdacyummm10:20 pm 24 Dec 11

WonderfulWorld said :

Wow there are still Neighbourhood Watch newsletters? I’d be interested in what suburbs they still exist, not having seen one since 1995 in Farrer.

I did see them occasionally around Farrer when I was in the suburb in the last two years.

WifiDeTech4:04 pm 24 Dec 11

How did they know a forklift was parked nearby? How also did they know they could make that much noise for that long before the cops would arrive? Could they have had inside- connections or maybe a spy surveillance camera …. or maybe they were just lucky?

The Dark3:21 pm 07 Jan 11

“Who polices the police’s statistics?”

iono, Coastguard?

JustThinking9:29 pm 05 Jan 11

I’m not sure about the ACT stats but I’d be checking exactly what is meant by stats and how they calculate them.
Some you will find only compare/report actual crimes,,,not attempted/failed crimes.
Others just compare suburb to suburb/state to state/numbers to numbers (not actual attempts)
I guess that’s why they call them stats and not facts..

DBCooper8:52 pm 05 Jan 11

Who polices the police’s statistics? Maybe burgulars stole them?

WonderfulWorld5:56 pm 05 Jan 11

Wow there are still Neighbourhood Watch newsletters? I’d be interested in what suburbs they still exist, not having seen one since 1995 in Farrer.

m_ratt5:23 pm 05 Jan 11

@ Erg0: I was under the same impression, but given that I reported the attempted break-in to my garage to the police in September and nothing showed up in the stats for that month, my doubts grew. Body Corporate had an insurance claim for all the damaged garage door locks, so I’d be surprised if mine was the only police report. (Avignon BTW – somewhere between 2nd and 11th Sept as I noticed all the busted locks when I returned to Canberra).

Erg04:03 pm 05 Jan 11

@8: I was under the impression that those stats came straight from ACT Policing, but I obviously don’t have any way to assess their veracity. I haven’t heard much about break-ins in that complex (which is where I live, if we’re talking about the same place), though it does sprawl a bit and I’m probably not in the bit that would be easiest to get into without being seen. I’ll have to ask some of my more “community minded” neighbours what the go is.

H1NG02:49 pm 05 Jan 11

I lived on Wanganeen for a while and never had a problem.

m_ratt2:46 pm 05 Jan 11

“The low burglary numbers in the local Neighbourhood Watch newsletter would suggest otherwise”

That always bemuses me. There was not a mention in that newsletter of the time somewhere during a week in September last year when every second garage in at least one of the buildings in Hopegood Place was broken into, plus there have been close to 10 burglaries of apartments overlooking the park near the Primary school that I know of in the last 12-18 months.

I stopped paying any attention to the newsletter when they filled it full of chain email hoaxes in the guise of security hints one quarter and brushed off my concerns/complaints to them.

Yes, there are good and bad pockets of neighbourhoods in every suburb…