Operation Albury Hotspot targets property crime, more than 35 arrested and charged

Operation Albury Hotspot resulted in more than 40 court processes as well as three young people issued with cautions and seven people receiving traffic infringement notices.

Detective Acting Inspector Chris Wallace, who urged people last month to lock up their cars and homes after a spike in incidents, thanked the community for providing information, which had "a dramatic effect" on reducing the crime rate.

"At the start of April, we formulated a property crime team that's been targeting different locations and different people within the community," he said.

"That's working rather well and that's an ongoing thing."

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The officer said some property such as tools had been recovered and when the owner could not be identified items would appear on the Murray River Police District Facebook page.

"I don't think it's organised crime as such, I think it's opportunistic crime ... people need to be a bit more responsible about how they look after their belongings," Detective Acting Inspector Wallace said.

"That's obviously getting through because of our reduction in the amount of things that are being pinched but goes in hand with the amount of crooks that we're locking up at the same time as well."

He encouraged people to keep reporting anything suspicious in their neighbourhoods.

"If someone's living in a street and they see or hear something at 2 o'clock in the morning they should be contacting police, not ignoring it," he said.