Forty incidents were formally reported to the University of Toronto campus police in the previous month, a decline in numbers from the last monitored period. This is possibly due to an overall lack of campus activity during the holiday closure. The majority of the calls dealt with thefts (13), breaking and entering or vandalism incidents (10), and unwanted or trespassing persons (8).
Wallets and other personal items were popular targets for theft, as usual. Hart House and Robarts had two items stolen from them, with the remainder of the thefts occurring in various campus buildings and the OISE garage. Lost keys were an uncharacteristically common report this month, with five individuals losing their access fobs to various campus buildings. One of these individuals had a purse stolen containing one of the fobs.
Odd reports this month included a liquor complaint at Hart House on the 10th, when an intoxicated man caused a disturbance in the lobby before being released by police into the care of a friend.
And finally, there’s the case of a criminal who went to the trouble of breaking the locking mechanism on a vending machine at 40 St. George St., only to remove one bottle of pop and leave the rest behind. Perhaps she or he was just a little thirsty.
-Amy Smithers
