NSW Farmers’ Association and NSW Police Force are collaborating to deliver a series of tackling rural crime workshops across the state commencing in September and finishing in October.
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Rural crime costs millions of dollars every year and has economic, social and personal impacts for people living in the country.
The NSW Police Force Rural Crime Prevention Team will visit 26 locations around regional NSW to present workshops designed specifically for farmers and primary producers.
NSW Farmers’ president James Jackson said preventing rural crime was an integral step to building a long-term prosperous agricultural sector and vibrant regional communities.
“For the first seven months of 2018, the cost of cattle and sheep reported stolen by farmers was $1.3 million,” said Mr Jackson
“These workshops will provide farmers with practical solutions and education that will better equip them to identify and report any criminal activity to police. NSW Farmers would like to thank NSW Police for their passion in tackling this issue.”
The workshops will help farmers assess the security of their property to reduce and prevent the risk of rural crime.
This includes options to increase security infrastructure, ways to improve asset protection and surveillance to reduce trespass and new ways to report crime.
NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Geoff McKechnie said: “Workshops offer all farmers a unique opportunity to engage with the restructured Rural Crime Prevention team. A great outcome from these workshops will see strengthened community engagement”.
