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A fourth car was reported stolen at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday, after three cars have been reported missing in the last two months. The stolen vehicle is a black Jeep Compass and was taken from C Lot after it was last seen around 7:45 p.m. Friday, according to UNH police.
In a second e-mail alert to all students, the campus was notified of the Jeep's disappearance and urged students with any information to contact the UNH police. Paul Dean, the deputy chief of the UNH Police Department, was unavailable for comment.
Rene Kelley, the deputy chief of the Durham Police Department, said no other car thefts have been reported in the area.
"We have not had any thefts off campus," he said. "Beyond that, I couldn't comment on UNH's investigation."
The news of these thefts was a shock to officials at other schools as well, as safety departments at St. Anselm College and Southern New Hampshire University reported no vehicle thefts in recent years.
"I'm rather surprised there have been that many," said Donald Davidson, the director of Campus Safety and Security at St. Anselm, referring to the thefts at UNH. "Obviously college parking lots are an easy target because there are so many cars, but awareness of the community can help tremendously in identifying suspicious persons."
Both St. Anselm College and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) have cameras in parking lots and common areas on campus.
"We do have some cameras but not in every parking lot," Davidson said. "We try to identify traffic on campus by their parking passes to find out who belongs here, which has been effective."
SNHU Public Safety Officer Catherine Curran said the campus, located between Hooksett and Manchester, has local police drive through lots to increase surveillance and have "someone watching the cameras from the gatehouse from 11 at night until six in the morning."
Because the Jeep Compass was the third car stolen in the past ten days at UNH, students are beginning to wonder whether their cars are safe in parking lots and why the university does not have surveillance cameras to monitor what happens on campus, according to several students interviewed for Monday's WMUR News Channel 9 report.
Additional information on each specific case can be found on the UNH Police Department's website, www.unh.edu/upd, and if anyone has any information regarding these incidents, they are asked to contact the UNH Police Department at (603) 862-1427.
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