WA's Police Commissioner has defended a sting operation which places e-scooters outside of shopping centres to catch thieves in the act of stealing, saying it's an innovative crime fighting tool. But legal experts have since raised questions around whether the tactic will actually reduce crime.
00:00While it's an average Perth shopping centre, it's also the home of a simple police sting.
00:07Officers planted an e-scooter, similar to this one, left it and waited for someone to steal it.
00:14In May, a 21-year-old was caught and pleaded guilty as part of what court transcripts show was a proactive operation to combat the theft of e-scooters.
00:24The man told the court he fell in the trap. The magistrate called his behaviour stupid, told him not to get caught in the trap again and gave him a one-month conditional release order of $250.
00:37She also expressed some concerns about the situation the young man found himself in on that day.
00:43Police confirmed they used secured, seized or forfeited e-rideables as bait and say people who steal will be held to account.
00:51The police commissioner defended the operation and says similar tactics are used to target car theft.
00:57Out in the street, locked up, people break into cars and drive off. Police have been doing that for years.
01:02The commissioner says police are addressing community concerns over stealing and trying innovative solutions within the law.
01:09If the community doesn't want us to do this, then that's why the parliament exists and they can remove those types of activities from, or prevent us from doing it under the law.
01:17I would have thought with our prisons full to overflowing at breaking point, and this is consistently the concern of the inspector of the prisons, that we wouldn't be out clogging up courts and prisons with this kind of fairly minor offending, particularly where people are almost induced to commit a crime.
01:39Another legal expert says it's difficult to find data proving this approach reduces theft.
01:44Those kinds of statistics are difficult to get hold of, but I think anything that reduces crime is a good thing, as long as civil rights aren't impeded.
01:53When questioned on whether there was any evidence Stings led to a reduction in theft, Commissioner Colblanch said it was difficult to provide statistics, but maintained the job of police is to bring people accused of crimes before the courts.
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