Police are investigating a report of a person taking photos of a child in a public toilet at Queanbeyan.

About 4.15pm yesterday (Tuesday 31 March 2015), a six-year-old girl entered the toilets at a shopping centre on Monaro Street.

The child has told police she saw a hand with a mobile phone emerge from under the wall of the adjacent cubicle and take a photo.

The person in the neighbouring cubicle did not touch or speak to the child.

The girl immediately left the toilet and told her mother, who contacted security at the shopping centre.

On their return to the toilets with security personnel, the cubicles were empty.

The girl’s parents contacted police, and the matter is now under investigation by officers from Monaro Local Area Command.

Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.

Meanwhile, the incident has again prompted police to encourage parents to discuss the ‘Safe People, Safe Places’ messages with their children, including:
– Make sure your parents or another adult you know knows where you are at all times.
– Always walk straight home or to the place you are walking to. Walk near busier roads and streets, or use paths where there are lots of other people.
– Know where safe places are – a shop, service station, police station, library or school. If you are ever frightened, you should go to one of these places and ask them to call the police.
– Learn about safe adults you can look for and talk to if you need help – police officers, teachers at school, adults you know and trust.
– Don’t talk to people you don’t know and never get into a car with someone you don’t know. If a car stops on the side of the road and you don’t know the person inside, do not stop.
– If you are scared and can use a phone, call 000 and tell them you are scared.
– If someone tries to grab you, yell out, ‘Go away, I don’t know you’. This lets other people know you have been approached by someone you don’t know.

Firefighters believe an electrical fault may have caused a fire which ripped through a Wangaratta cafe, in north-east Victoria, on Sunday night.

The business in Faithfull Street was badly damaged in the blaze, which began about 8:00pm (AEDT).

The fire is thought to have started in the roof of the building.

The Country Fire Authority’s operations manager, Stuart Kreltszheim, said there were some electrical parts in that area.

“There’s a number of electrical areas there, an airconditioning duct, some others, so it’s likely to have originated in that area,” he said.

He said firefighters were able to stop it spreading to adjacent businesses.

“This building is one block, where there’s a number of businesses that share the common roof space but it was a really good firefighting effort by the crews on scene and the incident controller to keep it to the building and the business that was affected,” he said.

Police from Albury Local Area Command are seeking assistance to locate a man wanted on outstanding warrants.

Phillip Said, 30, is wanted on a number of warrants.

This includes an arrest warrant for an assault in Albury last Friday (27 March 2015).

Investigators are appealing for information from the public in an attempt to locate the man.

Phillip Said is described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance, approximately 170cm tall, and with a solid build, olive complexion, a beard and dark-coloured hair.

Members of the public who see Mr Said should not approach him, but contact Triple Zero (000) immediately.