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Assistant Commissioner of Police and head of the Central/South Police Division Wayne Mystar says elderly people are being targeted for home invasions, and he is urging citizens to pay more attention to their vulnerable relatives.
Speaking on CNC3’s The Morning Brew programme yesterday, ACP Mystar said while this type of crime is not usually directly carried out by criminal elements living close to their victims, he warned that it is facilitated by people living nearby, who observe and give information to their co-conspirators.
“They are getting very intimate information and knowledge from persons who are in the area,” he confirmed. “The criminals are coming from out of the zone, but things are being set up by persons from within the area.
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