Police Reminder
These notices will shortly be placed in unlocked parked cars by detectives and constables in Christchurch, and handed to car owners who go to the Central Police Station to report thefts from their cars, and cars stolen.
Owners of unlocked cars parked on the street and in parking lots should be glad it was only the police who opened their car doors to put in the notice.
About 40 cases of thefts from cars are reported to the
police every month—more than one a day. There were 28,500 cases of theft of all types reported to the New Zealand police in the year ended March 31, 1964. A high proportion of this total was thefts from cars.
The police consider that unlocked cars, many with keys in the ignition switches, parked on city streets, are often the cause of youths beginning a life of crime by stealing from the cars or converting them. The car owners make it easy for the youths.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30715, 2 April 1965, Page 1
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