ACT Policing is thanking Canberrans for their assistance during last month’s traffic focus on hooning.
Officer in Charge, ACT Road Policing, Detective Acting Inspector, Paul Hutcheson said information from the community was vital to helping police be in the right places at the right times last month.
“At the start of the month, we asked Canberrans to let us know about hooning activity, so we could respond, and they have come through in spades,” Detective Acting Inspector Hutcheson said.
“We received, investigated and targeted responses to reports of burnouts, speeding and hooning events across the ACT, and even across the border with the assistance of our colleagues in the NSW Police Force,” he said.
“Officers have issued infringement notices, vehicles have been seized and some drivers are now waiting to have their day in court.”
Detective Acting Inspector Hutcheson said many of these outcomes would not have been possible without valuable information from the public.
He said that, in addition to responding to complaints from the community, 73 traffic targeting patrols were also conducted during the month of November by officers from Road Policing and other ACT Policing portfolios.
“Other operations arising from community information remain active, and ACT Policing will continue to investigate incidents reported by Canberrans,” he said.
Detective Acting Inspector Hutcheson said anyone who wished to report hooning should call ACT Policing Operations on 131 444 and footage could be taken to any police station on a memory card or USB.
He said an officer at the station would ensure all relevant details to go with the footage were collected at the time.
