Clovis Police increase officers presence as holiday shopping gets busier

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Clovis Police Department has released much officers passim the metropolis successful hopes of deterring transgression during the vacation buying season.

Action News went connected a thrust on with Corporal Dan Wilson conscionable days distant from Christmas.

"Typically, erstwhile idiosyncratic sees america that don't wanna spot us, oregon they don't privation to beryllium recognized, their demeanor changes," said Wilson.

Daytime video from Sky View 30 shows a packed retail parking batch adjacent Herndon and Clovis Avenues. A interest for Clovis Police.

"A batch of conveyance burglaries, we've had. Just people due to the fact that radical are retired buying and things similar that," said Wilson.

On the evening of December 18th, 2 acrophobic shoppers called 9-1-1 to study 2 men were trying to interruption into a car. The suspected thieves were arrested and person been identified arsenic 36-year-old Michael Lomauhie and 39-year-old Patrick Lacy, some from Fresno. Clovis Police said the swift enactment taken by the callers and other officers patrolling successful the country made it imaginable to halt the burglary.

"When they spot a patrol car out, typically it volition curb them. The lone happening that mightiness alteration if they're already successful the store, committing a theft oregon thing similar that and they don't cognize we're outside," said Wilson.

Authorities said it's important to debar leaving your belongings successful your conveyance that's disposable to thieves.

As the vacation play continues, Wilson said it's important to cognize other officers connected the roadworthy means an other defence against transgression happening successful the city.

"It's our job, it's assemblage work and it's showing the assemblage that we instrumentality their sentiment earnestly and it makes them consciousness astatine ease,"

Clovis Police said if you spot something, accidental something. You tin marque a quality by speaking up and calling 9-1-1.

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