Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

I’m not sure how many times cars need to ram through the front windows of shops before Police accept ram raids are a problem. And an increasing problem. Ask Gucci and Louis Vuitton Queen Street who got hit yesterday. Ask any Dairy owner, any Liquor store owner, any retailer with glass front doors. They’re fed up.  They’re shelling out of their own pockets for bollards, fog machines, security cameras, alarms, the works.  And it’s not cheap. And it’s not foolproof. Some are being hit more than once. Many Mum and Dad retailers or small business owners say their impression from the Police is that they don’t care, don’t have enough resources to deal with it, or can’t deal with it, because a lot of the time the offenders are too young to charge. It’s been reported that Police who do turn up and catch offenders usually drop them back home or send them off to youth court. And it’s only a matter of time before those offenders are back to their old tricks. So why have the Police Minister and Police Commissioner got the