If your home is burgled expect a Northland police officer to turn up and investigate.
That's the assurance from Northland police deployment manager Inspector Al Symonds following an announcement on Monday by Police Minister Judith Collins that home burglaries would be treated as priority offences from today and police would try to attend all calls from now on.
Officers in Northland were one step ahead and had been treating dwelling burglaries as priorities for the past two months, Mr Symonds said.
"Where someone gets into your house and rummages through your stuff you can expect us to be there as quick as we can.
"We want to be the best police service we can be. If you live in Kohukohu or at the end of Whangarei Heads we will do the best we can do to get there on the day [of the burglary]."