Unfortunately over the weekend we had a young male on an "ice" binge enter into the Southern Highlands and commit several crimes including stealing cars, breaking into homes and stealing property generally.

He tried really hard to evade all the efforts of our police to capture him, however, some great work by our local guys and girls ended up with him being caught - stopping his carnage before he could cause any more harm to our community.

This work was all carried out while attending to other incidents and helping out our community and residents with their needs in a timely and professional manner.

We have a great team of police at Bowral and I would love to take this opportunity to publicly thank them for their efforts of late.

Unfortunately we have seen more serious traffic collisions over the last week too.

Another terrible accident on the Illawarra Highway at Moss Vale appears to have been caused by driver inattention.

Every week I plead with the community to take care out on our roads in the hope that some will listen and not become another statistic on our roads.

I am putting more police on our roads over the next few months, targeting rural roads and Moss Vale in particular. So please slow down, pay attention to your driving and drive within your limitations.