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- The retail crime unit has logged 1,100 retail incidents since July 2025, charging 272 offenders and issuing 300 trespass notices.
- Police have not confirmed whether the nine recent ram raids—including the Halswell Seafood Centre raid that caused $5,000 in damages and those at Westfield Riccarton and The Hub Hornby—are connected.
- Statistics NZ reported 158 adults were sentenced for Canterbury retail theft in 2025, the highest since 2017.
