Police nab car thief

CCTV has helped police catch an offender wanted for stealing a family’s car in the middle of the night. One day after they were installed, CCTV cameras were used by police in Eketāhuna to determine the location of a person who had stolen a vehicle from a farming family in Masterton. Eketāhuna has had CCTV for about 15 years and had recently expanded its coverage after a communityinitiated project. Eketāhuna police Constable Jymahl Glassey said without the new cameras police would not have caught the thief. ‘‘A local family were physically confronted and threatened in the middle of the night and had their car stolen. Within 50 minutes of the robbery police were able to apprehend the offender hiding behind a commercial property in Eketāhuna.’’