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Peter Moore has a close shave with a pair of clippers as Decmil workers lop their locks to raise money for cancer research. See page 5. Picture: Yanni
Burglars hit sporting clubs Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au A WAVE of night-time burglaries at small sporting and leisure clubs across the Mornington Peninsula has members on high alert. Detective Senior Sergeant Peter Drake, of Mornington Peninsula CIU, said more than a dozen robberies had occurred at club houses at Rosebud, Dromana, Balnarring,
Mt Martha, Merricks, Crib Point, Mornington, Flinders, Red Hill and Hastings. “They may be connected but we are not certain at this stage,” he said. “They are a warning that club officers should check their security and make sure windows and doors are locked, and that CCTV is installed where possible.” Flinders Cricket Club was hit three times in September, with thieves forcing a window and accessing
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and pinch the TV – and they did!” He said the club had approached the shire to have an alarm installed, but had so far been unsuccessful. “If they helped us put in an alarm that could alert our mobile phones we wouldn’t need to do anything [in the event of a robbery] other than drive over and watch until police arrived. “Or even if the police drove around at night it would be a deterrent.” Flinders Golf Club reportedly was burgled around the same time but
the bar area where they cut a small padlock and stole $200 from a till, as well as taking a coffee machine, TV set and boxes of cricket balls from a locked cabinet – a total haul of $1200. In one raid they attempted to jemmy a window causing extensive damage to the frame as well as a roller door at the Stokes St premises. Member David Hunt said that after the first robbery, a member quipped that thieves might come back again
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