Albury Acting Inspector Gary Lewis made the comment at the community's fire station, where two break-ins have been attempted.

"I understand the issue is a perceived growth of crime in the area ... I'm hoping the figures I'll give you will put some of those fears at ease," he said.

Acting Inspector Lewis said between October 11, 2017 and August 28 this year, there were 23 reported property-related crimes with half of those occurring in 2019.

"Some are linked, but obviously not all of them," he said.

"I believe in about 23 per cent of those (cases) we have arrested someone."

One of those arrests was made in August when a home owner who had CCTV being streamed to their phone reported the burglary in process.

But some attendees had criticisms of police responses, which included a four-hour delay to reports of somebody scoping out a property and a victim of crime waiting multiple days for forensic police to attend.

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One resident, who did not wish to be named, told The Border Mail she considered the statistics to be high, when taking into account the amount of properties in Table Top.

"I've lived here for 10 years and I've seen a police car once," she said.

Asked about officer response times, Acting Inspector Lewis said overall in Albury about 85 per cent of priority two calls - a category for urgent incidents such as burglaries, or where people are at risk - were being responded to within 12 to 15 minutes.

"We're doing a pretty good job getting to the priority jobs within an acceptable level of time," he said.

"We try to get there as quickly as we can ... we don't meet the target timeframe because of other factors."

The meeting was attended by a number of Albury council's staff and councillors, Albury MP Justin Clancy and Daniel Brear of NSW Farmers, who said the organisation was working with 16 rural crime investigators within NSW Police.

"With Table Top becoming suburban to Albury ... it's very indicative of opportunities for people to commit thefts and create situations that are causing this meeting tonight," he said.

"This community would really benefit from the rural crime workshop we do that explains proactive measures.

"It's not saying we need to lock everything up, but it is about being aware of how people look at your property."

MC and brigade president Hugh Watson said the meeting had far better attendance than expected.

"We want to talk about how the community can work together with the relevant authorities to make the area safer," he said.

Mr Clancy said he would take up issues of sentencing, police tasking and mobile connection - crucial to running wireless CCTV - with the relevant people.

"The strength of numbers here not only tells the strength of the community, but the strength of your concerns," he said.