Local charities and Logan police have joined forces to help an elderly victim of a cruel break and enter.
Able Care Jimboomba, Red Cross Beenleigh and a Jimboomba-stationed policewoman worked together to provide an elderly man aid after thieves broke into his home and stole his phone, car and walker, leaving him helpless and immobile.
About a month ago acting senior sergeant Sharni Jackson of Jimboomba Police Station arrived at a traffic crash on the Mount Lindsey Highway, when a resident handed her a phone they had found nearby.
Ms Jackson noticed a contact on the phone named ‘Myself’.
She called the number and spoke to an elderly man living in Beaudesert who was missing his mobile phone.
The police have called the man Martin (name changed by request).
Martin was also missing his car and his walker; both were stolen in a break and enter.
“The scariest thing is someone in your house – they came into the bedroom and stole stuff out of my wallet… only about a metre away from my head,” Martin said.
“The day of the robbery, the Wednesday, I was right out of food, and I was planning to go shopping.”
Sergeant Jackson rallied the community together to assist Martin, organising a food package from Able Care Jimboomba, and a free walker from Red Cross Beenleigh.
Senior Constable Ben Condon and Constable Matt Price from Jimboomba Police Station collected the grocery hamper from Able Care, while Senior Constable Leanne Cole and Constable Jeff Duprez looked for the stolen car, which they eventually found.
These Jimboomba officers headed to Martin’s home in Beaudesert and returned his phone, and gifted him the huge food hamper, and Ms Jackson gave him his new walker, which he said was “a superior model” to the old one.
“This great work by Martin’s local police was only possible through the support of important charitable organisations, often staffed and managed by volunteers, “a police spokesperson said.
Sergeant Jackson’s advice?
“Check up on your neighbours, especially if they’re elderly,” she said.
