PHOTO: Juvenile joyriders are believed to be driving our region’s car theft rates higher
There has been an extraordinary rise in car thefts this year across the Western Plains App, new figures released by The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOSCAR) reveal – with Bogan, Bourke, Cobar, and Coonamble the hardest hit.
There were four times the number of vehicles stolen in Cobar in the four months up to March 2023 than for the entire year of 2022.
In Bourke and Bogan, there were more than twice as many cars stolen than there were in the total 2022. In Coonamble, the four months up to March saw double the number than for 2022…