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MARCH 2, 2023
Don’t panic!
Cambridge needs you: Lord Kitchener used the ‘Your Country Needs You’ catch phrase in World War I, now Kelly Bouzaid, left, and Neil Bridgland, right are doing it for Cambridge. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
We just need Dad’s Army - to join a community patrol working the Cambridge and Leamington central business districts during the day has come from the Cambridge Safer Community Trust. And it is the town’s retirement villages in the trust’s sights where there are plenty of able-bodied people who could walk the beat,
By Mary Anne Gill
Cambridge is resorting to Dad’s Army tactics to recruit extra sets of eyes and ears in support of retailers hit hard by escalating crime. The call for volunteers – men and women
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said trust member Kelly Bouzaid. The Cambridge Community Patrol already provides a service driving the town’s streets for five out of seven nights a week in the safety of a ute donated by C & R Developments. The patrol recently trialled a daytime on-
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foot service to discourage shoplifters in the CBD. Neil Bridgland said the night time patrol, started in 2017, relied on mature volunteers. He is in no doubt there would be others willing to help out during the day.
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