Boggabilla crime: Border region crime wave has no signs of slowing down

The crime crisis on both sides of the border is not slowing down by any means, after a stolen car was found burnt out and a business was broken into this week. See the photos here.

A burnt out car located at Boggabilla this week, a landmark becoming far from uncommon in the border town. (Photo: Facebook/ Goondiwindi Notice Board)

Burnt out shells of cars left to rot south of the border are a clear indicator the cross-state crisis seems is not slowing down.

A spat of recent events have shown despite government and policing presence in the region, residents and their businesses and vehicles are still at risk.

On November 28, a vehicle was lit on fire after it was dumped at Brown St in Boggabilla.

Members of the community have reported the car had false plates attached.

It is becoming a simply all too common site in the troubled town, with one resident telling News Corp Australia earlier this year that the brazen offenders would even torch a stolen car in front of the police station.

Aftermath of a break and enter at a Goondiwindi repair store overnight on November 28. (Photo: A & E Phone and PC Repairs)

A technology and mobile phone repair shop was also targeted by brazen thieves.

Overnight on November 28, A & E Phone and PC Repairs on Marshall St was hit by offenders.

It is unknown what was stolen.

Fireys were able to put out the reported car on fire this week. (Photo: Facebook/ Goondiwindi Notice Board)

One of our nation’s most crucial industries has also been in the firing line.

The Newell Highway, which connects Queensland and New South Wales, has been the location of a number of incidents in recent weeks, and truck drivers are often the targets.

Multiple sleeping truck drivers have been robbed or attacked with machetes, in a move that trucking officials say is causing drivers to avoid the area completely.

Truck drivers have even been shot at in northern New South Wales at Moree, just over an hour from the Queensland border.

A trucking body has warned drivers to avoid the area completely and under no circumstances stop there.

Moree, along the Newell and Gwydir Highways, is quickly becoming a place truck drivers want to avoid stopping. (Photo: Visit Moree)

Recently appointed Cross-Border Commissioner Ian Leavers urged to residents there was work being done, despite it being a slow moving wheel.

Mr Leavers said there was no reason border policing couldn’t become more simplified, with the current system complicating power and authority.

“There is a lot of good work being done by police on both sides of the border who are working together and sadly at times they are let down,” Mr Leavers said.

This month, the Queensland region’s top cop, Warwick Inspector Kelly Hanlen, said a cross-border collaborative sting was “successful.”

The operation nabbed six offenders, with Queensland cops and New South Wales detectives working together to arrest and charge known offenders operation on both sides of the border.

“We successful collaborated with NSW detectives and we worked together cross-border to target and crackdown known offenders across the border,” Inspector Hanlen said.

“It was effective in locating people that were wanted, what you’ve seen with Taskforce Guardian and both sets of detectives hasn’t happened before, it was the first time for a major cross-collaboration,” she said in early November.