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JONATHON GATEHOUSE: The Gazette – December 18, 1997<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pickpocketings and purse thefts show a steady rise as the holidays approach. The police have advice for harried shoppers on how to avoid becoming a victim.<\/p>\n

Christmas is the time for giving, but that doesn’t mean you have to make it easy for people to take things.<\/p>\n

Every year during the holidays, Montreal’s streets, stores and shopping centres bec orne favoured hunting . grounds for thieves, con artists and pickpockets.<\/p>\n

Harried consumers can be easy marks, but despite annual warnings from the police, the message never seems ta get through.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0People just seem ta think it will nev\u00adel’ happen to them,\u00a0\u00bb Constable George Manoli, a crime-prevention specialist Withthe Montreal Urban Community police, said yesterday. \u00ab\u00a0They have to understand that the bad guys are out there and this is the perfect time to do it.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

While crime statistics for this Christ\u00admas are not yet available, police are confident the story will be the same as in past years. ln 1996, for instance, the number of monthly incidents of pick\u00adpocketings and purse thefts showed a steady rise as the holidays approached, peaking at 605 reported cases in De\u00adcember.<\/p>\n

Manoli says the common denomina\u00adtor for most crime victims is careless\u00adness. Amomentary lapse as simple as leaving valuables in open view in a parked Cal~ not keeping a close eye on a purse or wallet, or counting cash at the bank machine, cau become an open in\u00advitation to a thief.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0We have to consider the image that we give people,\u00a0\u00bb Manoli said. \u00ab\u00a0The idea is ta stash it, not flash i1. Be a zebra alllong zebras, don’t stand out like a gj\u00adraffe.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Manoli has lots of practical tips on how shoppers can eut down the risk, like parking in supervised areas, car\u00adrying less money, using a secret poeket, or having a decoy wallet to give ta a bandit in the event of a robbery.<\/p>\n

THE CROOKS KEEP COMING<\/p>\n

The premise is simple – don’t give someone the opportunity to make you a victim .<\/p>\n

S\u00e9bastien C\u00e9rre, head of security at the downtown Eaton Centre, agrees. Though his man tries hard to protect shoppers during the holiday rush, adding extra personnel and using plain-clothes operatives, the crooks keep coming.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0If people are depending on just the security guards to protect them, ifs never going to work,\u00a0\u00bb he said. \u00ab\u00a0They have to pitch in and help.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

C\u00e9rre said his workers try hard to ed\u00aducate consumers and the mall’s 240 merchants about the dangers, but corne Christmas his office is always booming.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0It’s rock’n’roll time here,\u00a0\u00bb he said.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0We’re right downtown and a bit of a magnet.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Out on Ste. Catherine St. last evening, as thousands of shoppers flit\u00adted from store to store burdened with packages, few seemed to be concerned about Christmas crime.<\/p>\n

Most people questioned, like a woman who would only give her name as Nadia, sa id they don’t give mu ch thought about how they protect themselves and their holiday purchases from crooks.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0I don’t really do anything speciaL\u00a0\u00bb she said. \u00ab\u00a0I1’s never happelled sa l don’t thinkabout it.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

But a minority, like Sorrel Chaskin and her husband, Bernard, said they were aware of the lurking danger and take steps to minimize it
\nASTOUNDED BY CARElESSNESS \u00ab\u00a0We don’t carry cash. We use the credit Cal’d instead,\u00a0\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n

David Eaton said he and his wife are always astounded by the carelessness of most shoppers.<\/p>\n

He described how a stranger had Iefl ber purse beside him on a bench earli\u00ader that day while she went off and browsed in a store.
\n\u00a0\u00bbl’ve never seen this woman before in my life and suddenly l’m guarding her purse. If it\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n

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