NSW car thefts, break-ins accelerate across the state

NSW Police relaunched Operation Regional Mongoose in November 2022 to tackle “serious property-related crime committed predominately by young offenders” and since then, more than a dozen arrests have been made.

Charges against young people for vehicle theft in regional NSW have increased 179 per cent over the past five years, and are up 52 per cent across Greater Sydney, BOCSAR data shows.

However, this recent rise in car theft is a small bump in a decline that began more than…