Some residents in the regional NT town of Katherine are calling for more attention and resources to tackle crime in their community, as the national spotlight is fixed on Alice Springs amid its two-week youth curfew.
Police say they are "disappointed" by a recent string of incidents in Katherine involving young people, as an alleged break-in victim calls for more attention on the town's crime problems.
One of the incidents Assistant Commissioner Travis Wurst described was a break-in to a home where a Toyota Corolla was allegedly stolen at knifepoint, then used in a series of ramraids on businesses in the town."There's a six-foot-tall male with a cap and a mask, and with a knife in his hand. And he puts a knife on my back and asked me to hand him the car keys," the man said."The only thing I was praying to God at that split second was 'please don't stab me'.
"As of March 11, I knew that we weren't going to be having any PALIs here in Katherine on the bottle shops. And what I have been asking the police minister is, where was the planning?" she said. "If this is working in Alice Springs, we will assess it in every one of our towns across the territory."Listen to the news in Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha and Kriol
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