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Police seek boys over memorial damage

Security camera photos of the five boys police want to talk to.

Police are looking for five boys captured on CCTV cameras following damage to the ACT Memorial in Civic.

On December 28, the large stone sphere in the centre of the memorial on Ainslie Place, near London Circuit, was dislodged from its housing.

The following day it was removed from its housing, damaging glass panels around the base, and on December 30 the sphere was again dislodged and pushed several metres towards the Canberra Centre.

On December 28 five boys were captured on CCTV cameras near the memorial before running away.

Police say they want to speak to the boys, or anyone who was in the area of London Circuit near the Legislative Assembly around 2pm that day.

Call 1800 333000, or via the Crime Stoppers ACT website

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5 Responses to Police seek boys over memorial damage

KeithT says: 7 January 2025 at 11:04 am

You publish a photograph to help police identify people they want to speak to about vandalism. But you remove their main identification features by blurring their faces.

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Ian Meikle says: 7 January 2025 at 11:39 am

Keith, the police provided the photos with the faces blurred because, I imagine, the boys are underage.

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Clive Williams says: 7 January 2025 at 5:13 pm

Blurring their faces does seem to make it a fairly pointless exercise. It would be interesting to know if blurring faces is a legal requirement given that police are only saying they want to talk to them. Where’s Hugh Selby when we need him?!

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Curious Canberran says: 7 January 2025 at 9:26 pm

I see your point Keith – perhaps we can identify them by their shoes? I am sure the Police are hamstrung on this – what does blurring their faces achieve? Might as well provide a sketch. They may not not be too young to be vandals though. Would love to know the damage bill $$$.

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