Your help, our arrests

Your help, our arrests

It was good to see lots of whānau at the Balloons over Waipa event in Te Awamutu last Friday. In Cambridge on Sunday, a similarly positive crowd cheered on Maadi rowers as they began the…

Catches and con artists

Starting with catches, police in Cambridge responded to a family harm event last weekend where a male was reported for threatening to kill a female. He had left the address but was found to also…

Talking about driving

I hope everyone had a good long weekend. It was great to see the road toll at zero with everyone making it home from their holidays safely. In the seven days prior to writing, in…

Let me say this again

This week I am again prompted to remind you about Facebook fraud. Facebook Marketplace is an unregulated trading platform. While a lot of legitimate people use it, there are equally those recidivist fraudsters who use…

Our youth aid team

This week I want to focus on youth. School has started back up and so often it is when our youth are truant or being negatively influenced by mates that they can end up making…