Anti-mugging measure
6V.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 13. The police in Auckland would increase their nightI time surveillance of city i streets to counter robberies and muggings, said the Minister of Police (Mr Connelly) today. “Extra police will be drafted into the city and a special investigating team is being set up to deal with the mugging problem,” Mr Connelly said. “Patrol teams additional to the normal team policing are to pay special attention to j selected city localities. These teams will be backed up by a special plain clothes control. “In addition, the police crime prevention section will alert the public to the circumstances in which mugging I may take place." i Mr Connelly said that, in particular, drinkers would be ; warned that being seen I intoxicated alone could make J them easy targets for i muggers.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33382, 14 November 1973, Page 16
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