“We have a crime problem, but we’ve got a handle on it, and we re getting results.” In the past week police made multiple arrests and ran operations around the city and Tararua, Ward said. Around 2am on Saturday police arrested two youths who had crashed a stolen car. The pair made a run for it, but were tracked over farmland by the dog squad and appeared in Palmerston North District Court this week. Around the same time on Sunday police apprehended three more youths who had stolen a vehicle. Officers had to spike the car to bring the vehicle to a stop.