The Star: October 08, 2020
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Thursday <strong>October</strong> 8 <strong>2020</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
robbed every single day<br />
NEWS 9<br />
<strong>The</strong> most common time when<br />
robberies happened is between<br />
6-8pm, with 18 hold-ups. <strong>The</strong><br />
next most frequent time<br />
frame was 7-8am with<br />
eight robberies.<br />
Detective Senior<br />
Sergeant Craig Johnson<br />
said the things most commonly<br />
taken during the<br />
robberies are cash and<br />
cigarettes.<br />
His advice for shopkeepers<br />
is to do what they<br />
can to protect themselves<br />
against robberies by putting in<br />
place security measures such<br />
as fog cannons, or metal bars<br />
around their counters if<br />
possible.<br />
He said it is important shopkeepers<br />
have a plan for what to<br />
do when robberies occur.<br />
“I guess, having a plan in place<br />
for both you and your staff would<br />
be the first thing. Having<br />
thought through,<br />
if something like this<br />
does occur, what’s the<br />
best option for me to<br />
keep myself and my staff<br />
safe?”<br />
Johnson knows some<br />
dairy workers arm<br />
Craig themselves against robbers<br />
but does not recom-<br />
Johnson<br />
mend using weapons to<br />
defend yourself unless absolutely<br />
necessary.<br />
He said offenders who carry<br />
out robberies can range from<br />
youth offenders to experienced<br />
criminals but no one group is<br />
over-represented.<br />
SAFETY: Police encourage dairy owners to install security<br />
measures such as fog cannons or metal bars around<br />
counters to protect themselves during robberies.<br />
BY THE NUMBERS<br />
Dairies which have been<br />
robbed more than twice<br />
since 2017<br />
Hagley Night ‘n Day – 3<br />
Lincoln Rd Convenience<br />
Store – 3<br />
Night ‘n Day Woolston – 3<br />
Beachcomber Dairy (New<br />
Brighton) – 2<br />
BKD Dairy (Burnside) – 2<br />
Dallington Discounter – 2<br />
Harrington Dairy (Riccarton)<br />
– 2<br />
Langdons Rd Food Market<br />
(Northcote) – 2<br />
Riccarton Rd Convenience<br />
Store – 2<br />
Tuam Street Food Centre – 2<br />
Worcester Discounter Supermarket<br />
– 2<br />
Since 2017 there have been:<br />
53 dairy robberies in Chch<br />
Two people seriously injured<br />
and 19 who received minor<br />
injuries<br />
65 weapons used in dairy<br />
robberies, including 28 items<br />
used for cutting/ stabbing, 20<br />
used for striking, 10 firearms<br />
and 7 other weapons.<br />
No weapons used in 11 dairy<br />
robberies<br />
32 people arrested for dairy<br />
robberies<br />
41.5 per cent of robberies<br />
on weekends, 20.8 per cent<br />
on Mondays, 11.3 per cent<br />
on Tuesdays, 7.5 per cent on<br />
Wednesdays, 11.3 per cent<br />
on Thursdays and 7.5 per<br />
cent on Fridays.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most dairy robberies<br />
between 6-8pm (18) and<br />
7-8am (eight).<br />
Near miss for<br />
young boy<br />
A DECISION made only minutes<br />
before a tree crashed through<br />
the roof of a campervan early on<br />
Tuesday saved a six-year-old boy<br />
from being crushed.<br />
Justin Wealleans, his wife Ine<br />
and their sons Niko, 6, and Casey<br />
4, of Christchurch, were spending<br />
the night in the rental vehicle<br />
at a lakeside reserve just north<br />
of Kingston when the tree came<br />
down during violent winds about<br />
2am. A little earlier, unable to<br />
sleep because of the noise, he and<br />
his wife had got out of bed and<br />
were sitting in the front of the vehicle,<br />
debating whether to move<br />
to a more sheltered position.<br />
“It was full-on — it felt like the<br />
van was about to be picked up<br />
and rolled over,” Justin Wealleans<br />
said.<br />
A couple of minutes after getting<br />
Niko down from his bunk<br />
and returning to the driver’s seat,<br />
he stood up again.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> tree then fell through and<br />
smashed right on the seat, within<br />
seconds of me moving. If we<br />
hadn’t got our son out of the top<br />
bunk, it would’ve hit him, too.”<br />
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