NT Crime Stats, Upcoming Events in your Area and New Projects!

Welcome to the April - June, 2021 Neighbourhood Watch NT Newsletter!

The last three months have seen the introduction of our new Southern Community Development and Engagement Officer, a trip to Alice Springs by our Marketing and Communications Officer and another round of Personal Safety Sessions.

Check out everything that we have been up to and all that is yet to come below!

As always, if you have any queries, concerns or would just like to connect and have a chat we would love to hear from you.

Special Commendation Recipients!

Neighbourhood Watch NT have been nationally recognised for our commitment to creating better connected and more inclusive Territory communities.

On Tuesday, 4 May 2021 we were awarded a Special Commendation from Relationships Australia through their Communities Connected initiative.

We were recognised in part, for our Physical Distancing shouldn’t be Socially Isolating campaign which encouraged Territorians to stay connected during the Covid-19 pandemic by highlighting the simple ways in which they could maintain and increase their connections within the community.

Crime Statistics

The following crime statistics are sourced from the NT Police, and cover the period from 01/05/2020 - 30/04/2021. All percentage comparisons are made between the above period and 01/05/2019 - 30/04/2020.

NT Wide Crime Statistics
House break-ins: 2016 reported - 22.97% decrease
Commercial break-ins: 1625 reported - 20.85% decrease
Motor vehicle thefts: 1258 reported - 26.86% decrease

Crime against the person: 9583 reported + 22.7% increase Crime against property: 18679 reported - 13.65% decrease

Individual Region Crime Statistics
Darwin
Crime against the person: 2653 reported + 24.96% increase Crime against property: 5823 reported - 18.51% decrease

Palmerston
Crime against the person: 1009 reported + 47.08% increase Crime against property: 1928 reported - 27.52% decrease

Katherine
Crime against the person: 672 reported + 23.3% increase Crime against property: 856 reported - 22.11% decrease

Alice Springs
Crime against the person: 2089 reported + 13.16% increase
Crime against property: 5065 reported - 2.32% decrease

Tennant Creek
Crime against the person: 432 reported + 37.58% increase Crime against property: 968 reported - 10.54% decrease

Nhulunbuy
Crime against the person: 84 reported + 25.37% increase Crime against property: 284 reported + 79.75% increase

NT Balance
All areas outside defined urban areas
Crime against the person: 2644 reported + 18.62% increase Crime against property: 3755 reported - 17.22% decrease

Introducing our New Team Member!

We have recently employed a new Southern Community Development and Engagement Officer, Veronica. Veronica has joined the NHWNT team to help create safer, better connected and more inclusive neighbourhoods across the Southern region.

She has already hit the ground running and spent a week in Tennant Creek to help deliver our personal safety sessions and hosted an Alice Springs community event to introduce herself and get to know our members.

If you see her around, be sure to say hey!

Alice Springs Community Event

On Sunday, 16th May our team held an Alice Springs community event at Olive Pink.

Our Marketing Coordinator, Ash, traveled to Alice Springs to meet with community members and stakeholders to discuss community safety concerns, a future Alice Springs specific campaign and to introduce our new Alice Springs based team member, Veronica.

Ash and Veronica also went live on air with Andy and Mark on 8CCC Radio to chat all things community safety and Neighbourhood Watch NT!

Tennant Creek Personal Safety Sessions

On 20th and 21st of April we delivered a series of Personal Safety Sessions to the Tennant Creek community. These sessions were delivered in partnership with Victims of Crime NT and Personal Protection Strategies.

Our session participants walked away with increased confidence, increased personal safety knowledge and an increase in practical safety strategies. All in all, an increase in how safe they feel in their community - which is what it's all about!

We are excited to continue offering these sessions to the wider community and to bring the sessions to Darwin, Palmerston, Alice Springs, Nhulunbuy and Batchelor in the near future!