Break and enters have been in the news lately but figures show the number of home break and enters in the Noosa Shire has been on a downward trend over the past 20 years hitting it’s lowest level this year while the police are recording higher rates of crime solving than the state average.
Noosa senior sergeant Ben Carroll said while there had been a spate of break and enters over the past four weeks they were still three per cent down on last year and the “clear up” rate by local police was 31 per cent which was seven per cent higher than the state average.
Snr sgt Carroll said police suspect drugs fueled the majority of property crime and expected the downward trend in home break-ins to be the result of a number of reasons.
“There’s better security, no-one has any money in our cashless society, things are not as valuable anymore – TVs are as cheap as chips and hard to get rid of – and forensics has improved,” he said.
Shop break and enters are on the rise, however, with a 33 per cent increase, but police are fighting against them, having cleared 60 per cent, compared to the state rate of 35 per cent.
CCTV, good investigative work and the linking of crimes through forensics has been the key to police success in the region, snr sgt Carroll said.
Noosa police are also ahead of the state when it comes to stolen cars and stealing from cars. Police in Noosa are solving 48 per cent of car thefts compared to the state average of 46 per cent and cleaning up 20 per cent of the thefts from cars compared to 15 per cent around the state.
