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Talking crime with Kaikohe businesses

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Sergeant Haydn Korach has an important message for the Kaikohe business community.

Sergeant Haydn Korach has an important message for the Kaikohe business community.

The New Zealand Police Crime Prevention Team and Kaikohe Business Association are hosting a meeting for Kaikohe businesses at the town's RSA on Thursday November 2 to discuss crime.

Sergeant Haydn Korach, who heads the Crime Prevention Unit, has been gathering information about crime in the community to give business owners, operators, managers and staff the skills they will need in the event of an armed robbery or other crime.

He said he was giving plenty of notice of the meeting, which will start at 7pm, in the hope of seeing at least one representative from each business in Kaikohe.

He said that many of the recent robberies in and around the town had been committed by juveniles.

Kaikohe Business Association member and Community Watch Facebook page founder Tony Taylor said the town needed to hear what the police had to say.

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"This goes hand-in-hand with health and safety, upskilling business owners and workers on how to protect themselves and what to do in a serious situation.

"It's all about having a plan in place," he said.

For the police, Sergeant Korach said it was about filling an information gap.

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"The big corporates have their own people who train managers and staff, but when you're talking about a small, local shop up the road, they have nothing.

"No one comes to give them advice in the event of an armed robbery," he said.
"It's scary, because they have no plan in place.

"Last year it was ram raids, going into a property when no one's there.

"Now its armed robberies - they are coming in armed with weapons. It's only going to be a matter of time before there is a fatality," he said.

The Crime Prevention Unit had prepared a presentation and a small workshop for the meeting, and would also encourage shopkeepers to talk about their experiences.

"Experiences here in Kaikohe will be different to those in Kerikeri or Whangarei," he said. "We will go through the process of devising a plan.

"A lot of people have fire and evacuation plans, but they don't have one should they find themselves in a robbery scenario."

The meeting would also look at how police respond to incidents.

"A lot of people don't understand. If you report a robbery, why aren't the cops coming straight in? Or why haven't they turned up? You've called it in but they not here," he said.

"The reality is that the event might have happened in Kerikeri but the police are chasing the offenders down Mangakahia Road, and might have actually caught them and locked them up in Dargaville, which is why we haven't gone to the scene in the first instance.

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