As the weather warms and the light increases, so it begins.
In winter, I am generally more lax when it comes to personal security, because I figure when it is cold, there are fewer miscreants hanging around waiting to break into my car. It's too cold for them to goout, I figure. They're at home smoking dope and playing X-box.
I need to starting being more vigilant, obviously.
A school, a butchery and two homes were burgled at the weekend.
The burglary at Tui Butchers on Kamo Rd, Kensington has led to two juveniles, one male aged 15 and a 16-year-old female, being arrested.
Schools don't need this sort of grief. Businesses don't need this sort of grief.
And home owners certainly don't.
All at a time as we look into claims made to this paper that thieves stole a man's death bed, within days of his passing away.
Sectors of our judiciary nationally are under pressure over what the public say are light sentences - there's no evidence of that here in Northland. But as the weather warms let's hope that our judges' gavels resound heavily when it comes to burglaries.
