Surrey RCMP are attributing the drop in property crime rates in the city to a project targeting repeat offenders.
Crime analysts have been focusing on identifying and cracking down on a few chronic offenders.
Police say they are responsible for a large share of crimes like car theft, break and enters and mail theft around the Lower Mainland.
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The operation against those repeat offenders was launched last fall.
It’s now being credited for a 18 per cent drop in property crime during the last quarter of 2015.
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“That really allows us to monitor those that are causing, for lack of a better term, the most havoc,” said Supt. Shawn Gill with Surrey RCMP. “We meet weekly and then there’s daily reporting on [those] targets selected. But a lot of that is driven by our analysts.”
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