This week saw a couple of people walking as a result of their speed. Please remember the limit in nearly all the streets around the Wānaka, Lake Hāwea and Cardrona areas is 40km/h.

If you drive more than 40km/h over any speed limit you will lose your drivers’ licence for 28 days. Its going to be a cold walk.

There were two crashes on the Crown Range Road this week. Please slow down on the bridges and please take extra care over the nights now that the roads are getting wet and Jack Frost is visiting.

The snow has arrived and the guys at the station are all competing over the old Wānaka snow rhyme. Snow in May won’t stay….. and it just goes on from there.

Winter driving should now be looked at. Check the tyres, have a go at putting the chains on. If you have a new car or new to the south then get some chains. Learn how to put them on yourself as there is not much help out there in the early hours of the morning or a cold winter’s night.

We have had a couple of cars have their identity markers removed, one after a crash and one after it broke down in a remote car park. This raises a few questions; Is this car stolen? Where are the people and are they OK? Are they lost in the wilderness? Please take responsibility for your things and let us know what is going on, we don’t bite.

An incident of shoplifting was reported at Mitre 10 MEGA on Tuesday. We have an identity of that person and will be looking to locate them shortly.

Drink driving is still a thing apparently. Off to court go a couple of people and some are getting a $250.00 ticket and 50 demerit points for blowing between the 250 and 400 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath (that’s the adult limits). Walk …run …or get a ride home.

The weekend didn’t cause Wānaka Police too many dramas, however there is a worrying number of people who are drinking too much and not making arrangements to get home. If you are too intoxicated, you may be refused a ride with a taxi. Aggression towards taxi drivers in these circumstances will not be tolerated. Please take responsibility for how much you are drinking and have a backup plan to get home.

Good luck to the kids doing BLAST this week. They are testing themselves against the police Physical Competency Test (P.C.T.) which is what we use to ensure we’re fit for chasing offenders and eating donuts.

We’ll have some future police officers in the making.