February 12, 2009 Police may take your car if arrested for shoplifting www.privateofficer.com
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Orland Park IL Feb 12 2009
neighborhoodstar.com
Shoplifters beware.
Orland Park police want the authority to impound vehicles used in retail thefts.
“It’s another tool in the toolbox,” Chief Tim McCarthy told the village board’s public safety committee this week.
The committee approved the request and a similar request for vehicles involved in car burglaries. The full board is expected to vote on the changes at its next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday.
If approved, the measures would go into effect immediately.
Orland Park is a regional retail center with Orland Square Mall, Orland Crossings, Orland Park Place, Orland Plaza and smaller strip centers throughout the village. Shoppers are expected to generate $12.7 million in home rule sales tax revenue for the village in the upcoming budget year.
McCarthy said he hopes the proposed measure will protect retailers by deterring shoplifters.
He said the village saw retail thefts increase by 12 percent last year. Burglaries to motor vehicles also are up, but he did not have those statistics readily available.
“They drive around in crews of two or three and work an area,” he said of the burglars.
As a home rule community, Orland Park can move to impound vehicles used in crimes.
Under the proposal, police would impound a vehicle that a person who is charged with shoplifting more than $150 in merchandise drove to the store, McCarthy said.
The vehicle owner would have to pay $500 to get it back. It is the same procedure the police department follows for drunken driving, prostitution and driving with a suspended license, he said. The department has been impounding vehicles for certain offenses since 2006, he said.
neighborhoodstar.com
Shoplifters beware.
Orland Park police want the authority to impound vehicles used in retail thefts.
“It’s another tool in the toolbox,” Chief Tim McCarthy told the village board’s public safety committee this week.
The committee approved the request and a similar request for vehicles involved in car burglaries. The full board is expected to vote on the changes at its next meeting at 7 p.m. Monday.
If approved, the measures would go into effect immediately.
Orland Park is a regional retail center with Orland Square Mall, Orland Crossings, Orland Park Place, Orland Plaza and smaller strip centers throughout the village. Shoppers are expected to generate $12.7 million in home rule sales tax revenue for the village in the upcoming budget year.
McCarthy said he hopes the proposed measure will protect retailers by deterring shoplifters.
He said the village saw retail thefts increase by 12 percent last year. Burglaries to motor vehicles also are up, but he did not have those statistics readily available.
“They drive around in crews of two or three and work an area,” he said of the burglars.
As a home rule community, Orland Park can move to impound vehicles used in crimes.
Under the proposal, police would impound a vehicle that a person who is charged with shoplifting more than $150 in merchandise drove to the store, McCarthy said.
The vehicle owner would have to pay $500 to get it back. It is the same procedure the police department follows for drunken driving, prostitution and driving with a suspended license, he said. The department has been impounding vehicles for certain offenses since 2006, he said.
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