Tūrangi Police have had plenty of callouts to complaints of bad driving, such as dangerous overtaking, over the school holidays. Photo / File
Kia ora koutou. What a busy school holidays it has been in Tūrangi, but also what a good one. Offending has been really low down here and our volume crime results are zero, zero, zero - that is, no burglaries, car break-ins or unlawful vehicle takings over the past week.
People have been behaving, they are taking ownership of what's been happening in the community as well as being smarter around looking after their property. Just prior to the holidays we were working with some key local youths and their families and that has also helped.
On the family harm front though, we have had a few callouts, a couple of whom are repeat offenders and we are working with them.
What has been really high over this recent period is traffic callouts, mostly between the Desert Rd and Hatepe and those have been taking up a lot of our time. The main complaints have been of people driving too fast, overtaking on yellow lines, being impatient, or the manner of driving, whether it's unsafe or just not good and unfortunately a few of those have been visitors doing things like going 50km/h in a 100km/h zone.
