Premium Content Subscriber only Mackay police have reported a five per cent drop in unlawful entry offences and an eight per cent drop in unlawful use of motor vehicle offences, coinciding with the launch of a youth crime crackdown. Co-responder teams of police and youth justice workers have engaged with almost 170 young people since they began patrolling the streets of Mackay this year in a clampdown on youth crime. The $5.2 million initiative was expanded to Mackay in mid-March, after being introduced in five other locations around the state last year. Mackay police Superintendent Glen Morris said there had been a reduction in property offences, of which there were higher numbers of juvenile offenders committing those offences, during the current financial year.